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First, the fonts and design files belong to your old company. Fonts need to be purchased by your new company (also, don’t they have their own fonts they use as part of their brand elements?). (Not that we all don’t save our files for future use and portfolio).
Some large companies will monitor file attachments that you email, especially, as it sounds like they really have things locked down for legal reasons.
That being said, I can turn on file sharing on my home Mac and use that as a server, and connect and save my files there. Or Zipping (with a password) and emailing is probably the only other workaround. If you really are only needing them for reference or portfolio, it would be safer just to send yourself the PDFs of the final file.
Talk with your boss, and explain. But, understand in some environments that's your job: to work for them, and they are paying you for your skills and what you produce, so technically, you don't own anything you create, There is also security as a valid issue. Best to be transparent w/your boss. Good luck!
Large companies do this for a reason: mostly security issues, but also to prevent unlicensed (by the corporation) assets being put to use, making it out to the world, and becoming the target of lawsuits.
As others have said: talk to your manager. Don't do "work arounds" you could find yourself fired. For fonts and visual assets, they likely have enterprise accounts with providers. For layouts and templates you've made, you very likely will have to recreate them. You need to make the adjustment to your new employers policies, not the other way around, where you try to circumvent said policies.
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No 😭
Ok why is everyone being a cop lol
A designer who thought it wasn’t a big deal to use personal fonts on agency work got their client and subsequently their agency sued. It was a big client at an agency we all heard of. We are looking out for you.
Font files are legally considered software.
The shape the font produces could be considered copyrighted.
A lot of typefaces were created hundreds of years ago, but the specific vector points of a specific font on a computer couldn’t be older than the invention of PostScript which was in the 1980s. So they’re all still copyrighted. I am not a lawyer but there’s a fuzzy gray area around the utility of something designed more like a tool, and a tool’s output cannot be copyrighted. This is why type foundries set up contracts when you buy a font allowing its usage, so the buyer knows what they’re getting into. This is why just one font family costs $500.
The legalities become even stricter if the font is used for branding or a logo. Unless the font foundry gave away its commercial usage rights, you’re legally on the hook if anyone can prove the vectors came directly from a specific font. It’s not a good look in court when the font is discovered to be pirated.
How about airdrop from a personal device?
No :-(
What's about access to Dropbox?
Upload to wetransfer send to self?
Sounds like you’re at dentsu. I’ve worked for Disney in the past too, both over a century old, and it seems like the older these industry giants get, the more paranoid they are about their IP and processes = a stranglehold on the unique needs of creative employees. As a video editor/ motion graphics employee, you couldn’t get any plugin, software update, etc. at dentsu without going through IT’s approved list. So any project you got maybe handed over from a client’s past agency, common plugins and all, meant having to wrestle with IT. They were too afraid to lose their jobs over straying from “the list,” short deadline or not, so would often immediately refuse. You had to find some loophole to have your needs met to do your damn job. Pardon my rant but if you are at dentsu, you’re welcome.
If you are using sharepoint or onedrive you can share a single folder to your personal email address and use it as a dropbox between your work and personal device. This is how I have backed up portfolio pieces for the last several years working at a hold co with strict IT rules. And thank god I did cause I just got laid off with an hour to wrap up my day before I lost access to everything.