Arial Narrow font

[muldenator]

Hello, new GIMP user here. Best I can tell GIMP 2.10.6 is not seeing or using the arialn.ttf font. Several Arial font options are listed, including Arial Narrow Condensed and Arial Italic Condensed. Strangely, Narrow Condensed is set to bold and I cannot remove it nor can I remove the italics from the Italic Condensed. They are otherwise correct. Using Arial and adjusting character spacing also does not achieve desired result.

Any thoughts or ideas? What am I missing?

Also, can anyone shed light on gimpforums.com vs gimp-forum.net? I saw a post on gimpforums.com saying it was being shut down due to spamming...but it still looks active to me.

Thanks!