Tilde character in Inconsolata font looks off

[savchenko]

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🎯 Subject of the issue

Experienced behavior: Tilde glyph appears to be squashed vertically.

Expected behavior: Display of the tilde character ~ is clearly different to the minus symbol -.

Example symbols: ~

🔧 Your Setup

• Which font are you using (e.g. Anonymice Powerline Nerd Font Complete.ttf)?
  • InconsolataNerdFontMono-Regular.ttf
• Where did you get the file from (download link, self patched, source downloaded from link...)
  • This repository, v3.2.1
• Which terminal emulator are you using (e.g. iterm2, urxvt, gnome, konsole)?
  • foot
• Are you using OS X, Linux or Windows? And which specific version or distribution?
  • Debian Linux, Wayland, Sway.

★ Screenshots (Optional)

[Finii]

Your image at 800% without pixel interpolation:

This compares the unpatched (top) and patched fonts.

What you see after hinting is exactly as expected:

I think the patched font is not different from the unpatched font for these two glyphs. So you should rather report that at Inconsolata ;-)

Or to phrase it differently, what you suggest would need to be changed in the unpatched font, and that is unlikely. I used Inconsolata for several (many) years with no problems as my main and only font for programming and never had an issue with the legibility :thinking:

If I'm mistaken and the original Inconsolata looks different than the patched one on your system please report back, then we can investigate further!