I don't know if it's intentional, but the clumsy character shapes, the haphazard line weights and the "bleeding ink" effect whenever there is a curve or a corne

I don't know if it's intentional, but the clumsy character shapes, the haphazard line weights and the "bleeding ink" effect whenever there is a curve or a corner give it a strong "early DTP" aura. Or possibly even earlier, like a mimeographed pamphlet in the late 1960s, when APL was new.