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Take the emblem
The Emblem Club handed printing cuts across a dinner table so the mark would spread through newspapers, checks and stationery. This is the modern printing block. Pick a drawing and put it somewhere.
Two ways to carry it forward
1912, modernized
The historical letterforms, redrawn with clean curves for everyday use.
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The common emblem
The familiar common form. Its source and author are still being investigated.
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Every file and every format — 85 of them, the print sheets, and the terms for each drawing
Print it. Make it yours.
Window sheets and a personal pledge, ready to print. The pledge is optional; make it privately or sign your own paper copy. Read the pledge.
1912, modernized
A new, carefully redrawn interpretation of the 1912 design. Clean curves and deliberate spaces, with the historical letterforms kept recognizable. This is a modern adaptation, not a facsimile.
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1912 modernized, black
A modern adaptation of the 1912 emblem in black, with transparent spaces. Clean vector curves preserve the characteristic BEND composition.
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1912 modernized, white
A modern adaptation of the 1912 emblem in white, with transparent spaces. Clean vector curves preserve the characteristic BEND composition.
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1912 newspaper reconstruction
A source-faithful reference reconstructed from the Bend Bulletin of 3 July 1912, with the copyright symbol omitted. The original printing and change record remain in the archive.
Historical reconstruction: traced from an identified specimen.
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1912 Emblem, black
The 1912 mark: letters and double ring in black, transparent everywhere else. The central copyright symbol on the newspaper page is not reproduced.
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1912 Emblem, white
The 1912 mark in white, for dark backgrounds. Transparent everywhere else.
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The common emblem
Received common-form artwork with a single disc edge. It differs from the 1912 newspaper drawing. Its age, author and source are unknown.
Received common-form artwork; origin unknown. The package was produced with ChatGPT. A contemporary public comparison is filed, but no historical specimen or creation record establishes this master’s age, author or method of creation. The lettermark is a distinct received treatment, not an unchanged extraction of the cutout letters.
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Common Emblem
The received common form: a black circle with BEND in white and transparent corners. Its origin is unknown.
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Cutout Emblem
Black circle with the letters as true transparent knockouts. What shows through the letters is whatever is behind the emblem.
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Reverse Emblem
White circle with the letters as transparent knockouts, for dark backgrounds.
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Lettermark, black
The four letters BEND only, black, on a transparent ground. A distinct received treatment; its contours and spacing differ from the cutout letters.
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Lettermark, white
The four letters BEND only, white, on a transparent ground, for dark backgrounds. A distinct received treatment; its contours and spacing differ from the cutout letters.
All 9 files
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Web and app icons
The favicon set, cut from the Cutout Emblem. The same files this site uses.
Maker and cutting files
DXFs use millimetres: the 1000-unit SVG canvas maps to 100 mm. The cutout has three counter islands; the lettermark has four separate letters. Use transfer material for vinyl. A one-piece stencil needs a separate bridged design. No kerf compensation is applied.
Which file to use
| Format | Use it for | Notes |
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| SVG | Websites, design tools, signs, vinyl, laser and CNC workflows. | Scales to any size. The master format. |
| PNG | Everyday use: documents, presentations, social media, overlays. | Transparent. Pick the size nearest your output; larger only scales down well. |
| WebP | Lightweight websites. | Transparent, lossless. |
| JPG | Anywhere transparency is not needed. | Flattened on white. Black variants only. |
| PDF, EPS | Commercial printers and sign shops. | Generated from the active master on a 100 × 100 mm page. Black/white vectors; no spot-white plate, bleed or press profile. |
| DXF | Maker and fabrication software. | Generated closed polylines in millimetres from the active master. Confirm the output size in your cutting software. |
| ICO, favicon PNG | Websites and apps. | Cut from the Cutout Emblem. |
Use and attribution
Project-controlled contributions to the 1912 adaptation and reconstruction, pledge and sharing layouts are dedicated under CC0 1.0. Credit is optional; commercial reuse and adaptation are welcome. This grants no third-party trademark rights.
The common drawing has unresolved provenance and third-party rights. It is excluded from that dedication, including when placed on a printable sheet. Each package carries its own notice.
If you want to help people find the story: Emblem files and the story: BendEmblem.com. Pass it on.
About these files
Masters v1.2. Two everyday choices and a historical reference: the 1912 modernization is an intentional adaptation; the newspaper reconstruction preserves the printed drawing; the common artwork has unknown age, author and source. Its lettermark is a distinct received treatment with different contours and spacing.
Filenames are contracts: a published file is never renamed or changed in place, so you can hotlink, embed, or paste a path into fabrication software and it stays put. A corrected file gets a new name.
Use it. Share it. Put it somewhere.
May I?
Yes, for the drawings this project can give away — which includes the one the club itself used. The 1912 design is public domain in the United States, and this project’s contributions to the reconstruction and the adaptation are dedicated under CC0 1.0. Credit is welcome and not required. Commercial use is fine. The one exception is the drawing most people already recognise, below.
- Put it in your window.Vector SVG or the cutout for vinyl.
- Print it on a shirt.PDF or EPS for a screen printer.
- Make a sticker.SVG, or a 2048 px transparent PNG.
- Cut it from steel.DXF in millimetres, cut paths ready.
- Engrave it in wood.The cutout: the letters are true knockouts.
- Use it on your website.SVG, WebP and the favicon set.
- Paint it on a wall.Scale the vector; it has no minimum size.
- Put it on your car.The club put it on windshields in 1913; a foundry stood ready to cast it for cars in 1922.
- Put it somewhere we haven't thought of.There is no list of approved uses. The archive records where it has turned up, not where it may.
The exception, and the per-drawing notices
“No permission required” is true of some of these drawings and not others, so the site says which is which rather than making one promise for all of them.
Yours outright
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Project-controlled contributions to this modern adaptation are dedicated under CC0 1.0. Attribution is optional; commercial use and adaptation are welcome. No third-party trademark rights are granted.
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CC0 1.0 covers only project-controlled rights in this reconstruction. The 1912 source design is public domain in the United States. No third-party trademark rights are granted.
Not yet ours to give
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Received common-form artwork. Origin and third-party rights remain unresolved; no CC0 or other reuse license is asserted for this family.
This is the drawing most people already recognise, and its origin, author and age are unknown. Until that is resolved the project asserts no licence over it, and neither should you. If you know where this artwork came from, that is the single most useful thing anyone could tell us — the archive records what is known and what is not.
None of this grants trademark rights, and no trademark clearance has been done. Using a mark in trade is a different question from copying a drawing.
65 documented appearances are filed in the archive — printed pages, architectural glass, civic identities, public art and everyday objects. The emblem never really stopped being used; it stopped being recorded. See where it has turned up on the board.