diff --git a/lib/screen/render.test.ts b/lib/screen/render.test.ts
index d806c98..c4163d2 100644
--- a/lib/screen/render.test.ts
+++ b/lib/screen/render.test.ts
@@ -76,18 +76,30 @@ describe('screenTree', () => {
     );
   });
 
-  it('drops the separator when only one language has something to say', () => {
+  it('shows whichever language has something to say', () => {
     const frenchOnly = JSON.stringify(
       screenTree({ ...PAYLOAD, today: { ...PAYLOAD.today, next_change_en: '' } }),
     );
     expect(frenchOnly).toContain('Ferme à 13:00');
-    expect(frenchOnly).not.toContain('"·"');
+    expect(frenchOnly).not.toContain('Closes at');
 
     const englishOnly = JSON.stringify(
       screenTree({ ...PAYLOAD, today: { ...PAYLOAD.today, next_change_fr: '' } }),
     );
     expect(englishOnly).toContain('Closes at 1:00 pm');
-    expect(englishOnly).not.toContain('"·"');
+    expect(englishOnly).not.toContain('Ferme à');
+  });
+
+  it('shrinks a long next-change line instead of wrapping it', () => {
+    // The main block is narrower now the week runs down the side; a long
+    // sentence used to wrap and strand half of itself on a second line.
+    const long = 'Ouvre lundi à 11:00 après la fermeture annuelle';
+    const tree = JSON.stringify(
+      screenTree({ ...PAYLOAD, today: { ...PAYLOAD.today, next_change_fr: long } }),
+    );
+    const sizes = [...tree.matchAll(/"fontSize":(\d+)/g)].map((match) => Number(match[1]));
+    // Something on the screen had to come down from the preferred 24.
+    expect(sizes.some((size) => size < 24 && size >= 18)).toBe(true);
   });
 
   it('drops the whole next-change line when there is nothing ahead', () => {
diff --git a/lib/screen/render.ts b/lib/screen/render.ts
index 2732913..d5fa794 100644
--- a/lib/screen/render.ts
+++ b/lib/screen/render.ts
@@ -220,21 +220,55 @@ function main(payload: ScreenPayload, width: number): ElementNode {
           today.hours_text,
         )
       : null,
-    nextChangeLine(payload),
+    nextChangeLine(payload, width),
   );
 }
 
-function nextChangeLine(payload: ScreenPayload): ElementNode | null {
+/**
+ * "Ferme à 18:30", then the English underneath.
+ *
+ * Stacked rather than side by side: the main block is narrower now that the
+ * week runs down the right, and a row put the two languages in competition
+ * for the width — the French wrapped and left the separator stranded on the
+ * next line with half the English. Two lines also match the banner, where
+ * French above English is already the pattern.
+ */
+function nextChangeLine(payload: ScreenPayload, width: number): ElementNode | null {
   const { next_change_fr: fr, next_change_en: en } = payload.today;
   if (!fr && !en) {
     return null;
   }
+
+  const available = width - 2 * PADDING;
+
   return h(
     'div',
-    { style: { display: 'flex', alignItems: 'baseline', marginTop: 12 } },
-    fr ? h('div', { style: { display: 'flex', fontSize: 24 } }, fr) : null,
-    fr && en ? h('div', { style: { display: 'flex', fontSize: 24, paddingLeft: 10, paddingRight: 10 } }, '·') : null,
-    en ? h('div', { style: { display: 'flex', fontSize: 20 } }, en) : null,
+    { style: { display: 'flex', flexDirection: 'column', marginTop: 12 } },
+    fr
+      ? h(
+          'div',
+          {
+            style: {
+              display: 'flex',
+              fontSize: fitFontSize(fr, { available, preferred: 24, minimum: 18 }),
+            },
+          },
+          fr,
+        )
+      : null,
+    en
+      ? h(
+          'div',
+          {
+            style: {
+              display: 'flex',
+              fontSize: fitFontSize(en, { available, preferred: 20, minimum: 15 }),
+              marginTop: 2,
+            },
+          },
+          en,
+        )
+      : null,
   );
 }