There are lots of questions about red squiggles in Android Studio, but I could not find one for this particular situation. I am posting this in case it helps someone.

I downloaded Work Sans from fonts.google, unzipped it, and moved a couple of the .ttf files into a newly-created resource folder named font. The files have red squiggles under them, but when I hover over them, no error message appears.

When I click on the files I see "Lorem ipsum..." rendered fine.

What is the issue with these files?

There are lots of questions about red squiggles in Android Studio, but I could not find one for this particular situation. I am posting this in case it helps someone.

I downloaded Work Sans from fonts.google, unzipped it, and moved a couple of the .ttf files into a newly-created resource folder named font. The files have red squiggles under them, but when I hover over them, no error message appears.

When I click on the files I see "Lorem ipsum..." rendered fine.

What is the issue with these files?

• android
• android-studio
• fonts

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As downloaded, the names of the files were of the form WorkSans-SomeModifier.ttf, e.g. WorkSans-Light.ttf. I renamed the files to be of the form work_sans_some_modifier.ttf, e.g. work_sans_light.ttf, i.e. snake case. The red squiggles disappeared and I was able to reference those fonts.