fonts: Use Helvetica as the system-ui font on macOS
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Helvetica isn't quite right but it's a better default choice than a monospaced font like Menlo (it should be some variant of Apple's San Francisco font, but that isn't easily exposed) Signed-off-by: Darryl Pogue <darryl@dpogue.ca>
Helvetica as the system-ui font on macOS
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Helvetica isn't quite right but it's a better default choice than a monospaced font like Menlo (it should be some variant of Apple's San Francisco font, but that isn't easily exposed)
Testing: Untested, but matches the font family used for
sans-serifso it should be safe