March 10
Birthday Color: Signal Red
#E8383D · rgb(232, 56, 61) · hsl(358, 79%, 56%) · CMYK(0,76,74,9)
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Zodiac: Pisces ♓
Color words & personality
Read through the color words of March 10, Signal Red behaves like warm, driven, and honest about what you feel. Its color words point to roots: strong below the surface, so the warmth you offer does not waver easily. In print, this color shows a vivid, confident saturation. Blend two birthday colors and you get a memorial color unique to that pair.
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Birth flower, star, fish & fruit of March 10
Birth star
Alula Borealis
Star words: first leap, initiation
Ursa Major · ν UMa · mag 3.49 — Culminates around midnight
Birth fish
Japanese spiny lobster
Fish words: celebration, longevity
Peak: Nov, Dec
Birth fruit
Strawberry
Fruit words: love at first sight, small luxury
Peak: Dec, Jan, Feb, Mar
Anemone takes March 10. The flowers are wide and flat with a dark, almost black center, and they open fully in sun and close again at dusk. Hanakotoba gives it expectation and truth. The plant is at its best in March and April. Signal Red (#E8383D) is the birthday color, a pure strong red whose color word is roots: a flower that follows the light, paired with a color that stays in the ground.
The gazelle's three leaps cross the bear's paws, and Alula Borealis — the northern twin — marks the very first. This 3.49-magnitude star is the birth star of March 10, with the star words first leap and initiation. As midnight approaches it plants that step at the summit of the southern sky. Beside it stands Signal Red (#E8383D), whose color word is roots. Before the leap, the root. A good day to remember what red means just before the signal turns green.
Today's birthday fish is the Japanese spiny lobster — March 10. A back curled like a stooped elder suggests long life, so it has graced celebratory and ceremonial tables as a lucky guest. Its fish words are “celebration” and “longevity”. The peak months are November and December. The day's birth color is Signal Red (#E8383D). On a day wishing happiness that roots deep, let one glossy red shell join the table or a gift.
Mar 10 belongs to the Strawberry (イチゴ). Market stalls fill with this berry around Dec and Jan and Feb and Mar. Fruit words attach "love at first sight and small luxury" to the Strawberry. It is in season Dec and Jan and Feb and Mar. Its date also carries the birthday color Signal Red (#E8383D). The color word here is "roots". A seasonal fruit and a birthday color, sharing one date.
Our birth flowers are an independently compiled system based on flowering seasons and hanakotoba. Birth stars are assigned by an astronomical rule — the IAU-named star culminating around midnight on that date. Birth fish and fruits are compiled independently by peak season (fish include seafood).
About this date's birth flower
- What is the birth flower for March 10?
- The birth flower for March 10 is the Anemone. Its hanakotoba include expectation, truth, and its peak season is Mar, Apr.
- What is the birth fish for March 10?
- The birth fish for March 10 is the Japanese spiny lobster. Its fish words include celebration, longevity, and its peak season is Nov, Dec.
- What is the birth fruit for March 10?
- The birth fruit for March 10 is the Strawberry. Its fruit words include love at first sight, small luxury, and its peak season is Dec, Jan, Feb, Mar.
- What is the birthday color for March 10?
- The birthday color for March 10 is Signal Red (#E8383D). It pairs with the day's flower, Anemone.
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Color palette for Signal Red
Monochrome (lightness steps)
#F28A8D
oklch(74.6% 0.127 18.7)
#E8383D
oklch(61.4% 0.212 24.8)
base
#B01419
oklch(48.4% 0.187 27.0)
Analogous (±30°)
#E83895
oklch(63.5% 0.224 353.5)
#E8383D
oklch(61.4% 0.212 24.8)
base
#E88B38
oklch(72.2% 0.147 58.3)
Complementary (+180°)
#E8383D
oklch(61.4% 0.212 24.8)
#38E8E3
oklch(84.6% 0.135 192.0)
base
#AAF5F3
oklch(92.1% 0.074 193.8)
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