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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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[-] MF_COOM@hexbear.net 6 points 3 weeks ago

Kids can't read sanscrit either it's fine

[-] rootsbreadandmakka@hexbear.net 8 points 3 weeks ago

Sanskrit is a different language, I’m not over here upset that kids can’t read latin, I’m upset that kids can’t read English

[-] oregoncom@hexbear.net 4 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

It would suck if after millennia of transmission this generation is the one where Sanskrit becomes forgotten, especially considering roughly a twelfth of the world's population speaks a Sanskrit descendant language and about 1.7 billion people follow a religion whose holy texts are written in Sanskrit or a Sanskrit derived language.

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