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Font style selection doesn't work for some fonts

Description

There's a tiny genuine bug in here (can't select Bold on some fonts) but this is mostly a wishlist thing.

Some fonts have an unusual repertoire of styles that results in KiCad making unusual choices. For example, if I write this label in Futura, it renders with the "Medium" style with these pointy stylized capitals regardless of whether I've selected Bold:

Screenshot_2022-12-29_at_15.01.33

KiCad seems to fail to find the correct style when there isn't one called Regular. LibreOffice on the same system lets me pick Bold:

Screenshot_2022-12-29_at_15.02.05

It'd be nice to have a dropdown to choose font styles instead of just the B / I buttons.

Steps to reproduce

  1. Select a font without a Regular style.

KiCad Version

Application: KiCad PCB Editor arm64 on arm64

Version: (6.99.0-5179-g411efe6f3d), release build

Libraries:
	wxWidgets 3.2.1
	FreeType 2.12.1
	HarfBuzz 5.3.1
	FontConfig 2.14.0
	libcurl/7.85.0 (SecureTransport) LibreSSL/3.3.6 zlib/1.2.11 nghttp2/1.47.0

Platform: macOS Ventura Version 13.1 (Build 22C65), 64 bit, Little endian, wxMac

Build Info:
	Date: Dec 29 2022 01:19:59
	wxWidgets: 3.2.1 (wchar_t,wx containers)
	Boost: 1.80.0
	OCC: 7.6.3
	Curl: 7.77.0
	ngspice: 38
	Compiler: Clang 13.0.0 with C++ ABI 1002

Build settings:
	KICAD_SPICE=ON