Alright, so regardless of if you’re prefetching or bundling an asset, you will need to call Font.downloadAsync() to register the font for use, but if the font asset is bundled it will pull from bundle rather than perform a network request. In your standalone project, prefetching an asset that is part of your bundle will create a copy of your asset so you don’t want to do that, but as you mentioned, you will need to prefetch when running your project within the Expo Client to avoid delayed image loading and what not.
Cheers,
Adam