Colon character in Fira Code Retina is not symmetrical

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Colon character in Fira Code Retina is not symmetrical #765

Open ssoher opened 5 years ago

ssoher commented 5 years ago

As can be seen from the below screenshot, in the colon ':' character the two dots are not of the same size (the top one is taller). Is this by design?

tonsky commented 5 years ago

Probably a hinting issue. What OS are you using? Which editor, font size, font weight, and what display are you using (retina/not)? https://github.com/tonsky/FiraCode/wiki#hinting-issues

ssoher commented 5 years ago

Sublime, IntelliJ and emacs Windows 10 x64 1709 Size 14(px) in IntelliJ 10.5(pt) on sublime and emacs I didn't set any fontweight and can't see no such option in my editors, so default I guess? Display is a 40 inch Philips BDM4065UC running at 3840 x 2160 resolution

ssoher commented 5 years ago

This problem doesn't seem to happen on any other font size but 14px

tonsky commented 5 years ago

Yeah, windows does some aggressive hinting, not much I can do to fix that