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Yeah, looks like they weirdly happened to want to describe their font like that unaware that the word already had a concrete meaning in typography context.
Have the feeling this might be one of those things where I hyperfixate, do a deep dive, and never get an actually satisfying answer.....
There is at least contrast, as in variation in line width like you'd see in caligraphy, it's just very subtle. But yeah if they're using humanist font design features it feels like they're using them very sparingly and in extremely subtle ways
I'm no expert but I see what you mean 😅