Sans serif · Kim Andre Ottesen

Opening Hours Sans

Your words – they follow you round the site

Case

Size72 px

Weight400 RegularThe only weight it comes in

Letter spacing0 em

Line height1.10

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CSSfont-family: 'Opening Hours Sans', sans-serif; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; line-height: 1.1;

Opening Hours Sans is a free sans serif by Kim Andre Ottesen, from its maker’s repository on GitHub. Among the 697 sans serifs on FontKind, Opening Hours Sans has an average x-height, is of average width and, at its regular weight, is darker than 64%. Its thickest strokes are 1.3 times its thinnest: nearly even strokes.

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01 / Light table

Laid on top of Aspekta

Opening Hours Sans on one light table with its two closest fonts, Aspekta (86 out of 100) and Miedinger (84). Aspekta is 3% wider; Miedinger has nearly identical proportions.

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Ink shared with Opening Hours SansAspekta…

Most different letters first; the figure is the share of ink the fonts have in common. Where the fonts agree the letters cancel to black: every white sliver is a real difference.

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02 / Letters

The Opening Hours Sans alphabet

Capitals, lowercase, figures and signs · weight 400

Tap the letters you like, here and in other fonts, to find the fonts whose letters look most like them.

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03 / Sizes

Opening Hours Sans at every size

1 weight (400) · six sizes, in your words

12 px
16 px
24 px
36 px
48 px
72 px

04 / Facts

Who made Opening Hours Sans, and can you use it?

Designer: Kim Andre Ottesen
Kind: Sans serif
Styles: 1 weight (400)
From: GitHub
Character sets: latin
Licence: SIL Open Font License 1.1

Can I use it?

Commercial use: Yes.
Logos: Yes.
Websites and apps: Yes. Self-hosted.
PDFs and documents: Yes.
Changes: Yes, under another name. Not as “Opening Hours Studio”: the licence reserves the name.
Sharing the files: Yes, but not for sale. With the licence.

Opening Hours Sans is under the SIL Open Font License 1.1. This is a plain summary, not legal advice: the licence itself decides.

What each licence allows →

Read the licence

Its licence file, in its repository

Already in your apps?

Google Docs: Not verified. Docs adds Google Fonts, and Opening Hours Sans comes from its maker’s repository on GitHub. Google’s guide
Word, PowerPoint: Not verified. Install it from its maker’s repository on GitHub first. Microsoft’s list
Figma: Not verified. Search its font menu, or install it. Figma’s help
Canva: Not verified. Search its font menu for Opening Hours Sans, or upload it with Canva Pro. Canva’s help
Cricut: Once installed. Design Space lists Opening Hours Sans under System. Fonts for Cricut →

From each app’s own font list or help pages.

How each app gets its fonts →

Get Opening Hours Sans on GitHub

05 / Measurements

Opening Hours Sans, measured

Taken from the font file's own outlines, regular style

Hxgp in Opening Hours Sans. Lines at the measured heights, as a share of the em · The parts of a letter, named

x-height: 52.0% of the emlowercase x
Cap height: 74.0% of the emcapitals
x / cap: 0.70lowercase against capitals
Width: 49.6% of the emaverage lowercase
Ink: 44%letter box filled
Contrast: 1.30 : 1nearly even strokes

How we measure →

Where it stands among sans serifs

Ranked against all 697 sans serifs on FontKind

x-heightNear the middle of sans serifs
WidthNear the middle of sans serifs
InkDarker than 64% of sans serifs
ContrastMore contrast than 77% of sans serifs

06 / Similar fonts

Fonts similar to Opening Hours Sans

Matched letter by letter · its own family apart

All 100 fonts similar to Opening Hours Sans →Compare side by side →Get Opening Hours Sans on GitHub

07 / Swap

Swap Opening Hours Sans without a jump

Running text within 3% of the width, x-height within 5%

Fallback while it loads

Until Opening Hours Sans loads, this sets Arial in its place at 100.6% of its size, so running text keeps Opening Hours Sans’s width and lines keep their height: nothing moves when it arrives.

@font-face {
  font-family: 'Opening Hours Sans Fallback';
  src: local('Arial');
  size-adjust: 100.63%;
  ascent-override: 97.39%;
  descent-override: 21.86%;
  line-gap-override: 19.88%;
}

font-family: 'Opening Hours Sans', 'Opening Hours Sans Fallback', sans-serif;

08 / Questions

Questions about Opening Hours Sans

Answered from its licence, GitHub and each app’s own font list

Is Opening Hours Sans free for commercial use?

Yes. Opening Hours Sans is under the SIL Open Font License 1.1 , which allows commercial use at any scale, logos, websites, apps and PDFs included; a changed version may not be called “Opening Hours Studio”.

How do I download and install Opening Hours Sans?

Opening Hours Sans comes free from its maker’s repository on GitHub . On its repository there, choose Code, then Download ZIP, and unzip the file: the fonts are in its fonts folder. On Windows or a Mac, double-click each TTF or OTF file and choose Install, then restart any app that was open. The web fonts this page uses load from its repository, through jsDelivr, as does its licence file .

Is Opening Hours Sans in Google Docs?

Probably not: the More fonts list in Docs draws on Google Fonts, and Opening Hours Sans comes from its maker’s repository on GitHub. Docs can’t add a font of your own, so set it in an app on your computer, such as Word, instead.

How many weights does Opening Hours Sans have?

Opening Hours Sans comes in one weight, Regular (400). Ask for bold and most apps thicken the letters themselves: a faux bold, not a drawn one.

Who designed Opening Hours Sans?

Opening Hours Sans was designed by Kim Andre Ottesen.

What fonts are similar to Opening Hours Sans?

The closest in our letter-by-letter match are Aspekta (86), Miedinger (84) and Zalando Sans (83), out of 100. Next to Opening Hours Sans, Aspekta is 3% wider. See all 100 fonts like Opening Hours Sans.