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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I like cursive and think it should continue to be taught in schools

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To me cursive was a very important part of gaining fine motor skills. All these horror stories about being abused to learn cursive don’t sound like the problem is with cursive, rather with abusive teachers

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I’m with you there. Obviously we shouldn’t, like, beat children for not writing perfect cursive in third grade, but kids should be playing outside and engaging in more active learning anyway. There’s no harm in making one of the actual classtime activities be cursive rather than extra math class.

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