Static Assets Returning 404 After Deployment

Static assets such as images, fonts, PDFs, and other files that work perfectly in local development return 404 errors after deploying your v0-generated Next.js app to Vercel. The public folder contents are not being served, or asset paths are resolving incorrectly in production.

This commonly happens because v0 generates references to assets using relative paths that work in development but break when the application is deployed under a base path or when the build output restructures the file hierarchy.

Fonts loaded from the public folder may also fail to load, causing layout shifts as the browser falls back to system fonts, and favicon or Open Graph images referenced in metadata may return 404 in production.