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mac: add Arial Black and Arial Narrow to allowlist

In windows, when a font (family?) is whitelisted, it also enables it's variants - so Arial will also allow Arial Black and Arial Narrow (if you have them, this is actually a fingerprinting issue as at least one of them is MS bundled and for example, I have neither on my win 11 but both on my win7 which has MS office)

On mac, they are stock standard

checking Arial Black + Arial Narrow

ESR115 (min supported OS is 10.12)

ESR128 (min supported OS is 10.15)

I couldn't easily find some of the relevant apple pages (I used to have them documented somewhere), but I see a pattern. Since at least 10.13 both fonts are automatically included, and while the support grouping has changed to put installed and downloadable together, they have always been core fonts

Mac fonts require these two to be whitelisted, unlike windows - i.e mac treats them as a different "family". Tested on mac and adding them works nicely :)

Is it worth adding these to the whitelist for better compat/aesthetics? cc: @pierov

Edited by Thorin
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