Vectors and Fonts Are Squished even in Export

Hey all,

Hoping for some help with this one. Select fonts and vector images are appearing squished / bloated. I thought perhaps it was a memory saving technique, but it shows up in exports - png, pdf - so I feel like something bizarre is going on. I've attached images because I'm rubbish at describing this. 

The top one is the strange squish effect and the bottom is how the font should properly look. 

Thank you for the help!