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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.”

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[–] FungiDebord@hexbear.net 6 points 3 months ago

next they'll kowtow to Gen Z by making boxy thermals and flannel jncos.

[–] sexywheat@hexbear.net 6 points 3 months ago (2 children)

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

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[–] egg1918@hexbear.net 5 points 3 months ago

I write in cursive and I don't even know who this Eddie fella is

[–] m532@hexbear.net 5 points 3 months ago

I refused to learn that shit in school

I knew it was useless

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