Free business hours sign SVG files

Setting your own hours

No two businesses keep the same hours, so the signs here have the days and leave the times blank. The sheet of numerals is drawn in the same face as the day names. Its note gives the width that puts it at the same scale as the seven-day list, so that the numerals, AM, PM and CLOSED come out the same height as the days. At that size a blank holds a line such as 9 AM - 5 PM; a line with minutes, such as 9:00 AM - 5:00 PM, is longer than the blank, so cut the sheet at 80 per cent of that width for those, or use the store hours sign, whose lines run the full width. Then set each line by hand: the times go on the rule after each day, and a day off takes the word CLOSED. A line such as 9:00 AM - 5:00 PM uses four noughts and only two other numerals, so the sheet holds twenty-two noughts and two of each numeral from 1 to 9, with five each of AM and PM. Cut it again when you run out of a numeral.

Lay the lines out before you stick anything. Leave each line on its backing, tape the sheets to the door with masking tape, and stand outside to read it. The usual mistakes are a wrong day and a missing PM, and both are easier to see from where a customer stands.

Sizes for doors and windows

Hours on a shop door are usually read from about a metre away, and lettering 15 to 20 mm tall is comfortable at that distance. Cut the seven-day list 250 mm wide and the days are 17 mm tall. On glass, apply white or frosted vinyl to the outside, or cut everything mirrored and apply it inside, where it is out of the weather. The plate, the open and closed plates and the clock face are single pieces with the letters cut through, so they suit 3 mm acrylic or plywood.

How to open the files

• Cricut Design Space: choose Upload, pick the SVG, and add it to the canvas. Set the width you want; the shape is already welded.
• Silhouette Studio: Designer Edition and above open the SVG. The free Basic Edition does not, so open the DXF instead.
• LightBurn, xTool Creative Space and Glowforge: import the SVG, then set the layer to cut, score or engrave.
• Inkscape, Illustrator and Affinity: open the SVG. It is a plain filled path, so you can recolour it, add a stroke or combine it with your own work.
• Printing or sublimation: use the PNG, which has a transparent background.

Each design page lists the file’s narrowest part at seven sizes, so you can tell whether it will survive at the size you plan to cut.

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