As you see, the article also mentions and .
In casual speech, the Japanese sometimes divide the attractiveness of girls/women into categories like
> The beautiful type
>
> The cute type
>
> The sexy type
'' is not typically heard (and this is probably why the article is using around it), but it seems that this girl created this category to categorize her own attractiveness as well, namely as 'someone that is easy to approach, that people feel comfortable talking to'.
So here definitely means 'type'.