Eddie Bauer logo ditches the script because Gen Z doesn't read cursive

It’s a major rebrand that launches on Eddie Bauer’s digital platforms today and will start to appear at international brick-and-mortars on a rolling basis. By fall 2024, all Eddie Bauer products will begin to feature the updated logo.

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Though Bantle and his team initially toyed with the idea of keeping the script font, the general reaction they received was that it looked dated and, to some, confusing. “A big part of what I’m going to need to do here is reintroduce this great heritage brand to the next generation,” Bantle says. “And kids don’t even learn to read cursive in school anymore.”

  • sexywheat [none/use name]
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    8 days ago

    FUCK cursive. Absolutely useless piece of shit writing system. I despise every. single. second. I had to spend learning that refuse that I have never once used in my entire adult life.

    If they are still teaching that pestilence in school I am going to redacted-1 redacted-2 in minecraft

    • kristina [she/her]
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      8 days ago

      inshallah-script goku-halal

      i like unique writing scripts. though yes fuck the teachers who would snap my hands with rulers or force me to write the same word a billion times until the skin on my hands were rubbing off from moving on the paper and desk so much