This is a bug we’re going to have to fix but a work around right now is to append the folder name to before the font name. For example if you project structure looks like:
assets
Fishies
- main.lua
- whatever.ttf
Then in your main.lua you want to create the new text like so:
local myText1 = display.newText( “This is text”, 300, 300, “Fishies/whatever”, 60 )