If you need, in metronome marks:
= sign to other symbol, you can use the property tempoEquationText.- sign between tempo values (e.g. 100-120) to, say, 100~120, you can use the property tempoBetweenText.tempoHideParenthesis as true.tempoNumberColor.This snippet is based on a snippet by Arnold Theresius. The original snippet create a formatter called format-metronome-markup-approx, and the default value to tempoEquationText in that snippet is "≈". I changed back this default to Lilypond default, and added the tempoBetweenText property. Also, I changed the sizing of some elements, as described above.