April 18
Birthday Color: Slate Gray
#626063 · rgb(98, 96, 99) · hsl(280, 2%, 38%) · CMYK(1,3,0,61)
CMYK values are numeric conversions from RGB and may differ from print standards.
Zodiac: Aries ♈
Color words & personality
Read through the color words of April 18, Slate Gray behaves like modest and precise. Its color words point to pencil lead: quiet in appearance, exact in what it leaves behind. In print, this color shows an almost achromatic stillness, deep and quiet. Colors propose; they do not decide. Your own reading is the final one.
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Birth flower, star, fish & fruit of April 18
Birth star
Muphrid
Star words: quietude, reserve
Boötes · η Boo · mag 2.68 — Culminates around midnight
Birth flower
Grape hyacinth
Meaning: mutual understanding, disappointment
Peak: Mar, Apr
Grape hyacinth returns on April 18, this time against a darker color. The hanakotoba have not changed: mutual understanding and disappointment, still unresolved. Peak season remains March to April. Slate Gray (#626063) is the birthday color, a deep neutral whose color word is "pencil lead" — quiet in appearance, exact in what it leaves behind. The same flower, read a shade more seriously.
Muphrid is Arabic for the lancer's solitary one, and that is exactly its story: a 2.68-magnitude star in Bootes, standing beside brilliant Arcturus yet quietly yielding the spotlight. On April 18 it is your birth star, with the star words quietude and reserve. As the date turns it leans on its spear at the height of the southern sky. The day's color is Slate Gray (#626063), read as a pencil's core. A lone spearman beside a leaden color: a story can be carried without being the hero.
The birth fish of April 18 is the Sakura shrimp, fished in spring and autumn. Its dried form has long supported the umami of Japanese broth. Its fish words are "blessing" and "springtide". Peak months are April and November, when the pale pink is said to glow all the more. The birth color of the day is Slate Gray (#626063), a settled gray like pencil lead. Add the toasted note of these tiny shrimp to spring's paired shades.
For Apr 18, the birth fruit is the Apple. A pome fruit of the season, the Apple arrives from Oct and Nov. In fruit words, it stands for trust and health. Peak season: Oct and Nov. This day's birthday color: Slate Gray (#626063). Its color word is "pencil lead". Seasonal sweetness and a personal color, on the same day.
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 April 18?
- The birth flower for April 18 is the Grape hyacinth. Its hanakotoba include mutual understanding, disappointment, and its peak season is Mar, Apr.
- What is the birth fish for April 18?
- The birth fish for April 18 is the Sakura shrimp. Its fish words include blessing, springtide, and its peak season is Apr, Nov.
- What is the birth fruit for April 18?
- The birth fruit for April 18 is the Apple. Its fruit words include trust, health, and its peak season is Oct, Nov.
- What is the birthday color for April 18?
- The birthday color for April 18 is Slate Gray (#626063). It pairs with the day's flower, Grape hyacinth.
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Color palette for Slate Gray
Monochrome (lightness steps)
#908E91
oklch(64.9% 0.005 314.8)
#626063
oklch(49.2% 0.005 314.8)
base
#343334
oklch(32.2% 0.002 325.6)
Analogous (±30°)
#616063
oklch(49.1% 0.005 301.3)
#626063
oklch(49.2% 0.005 314.8)
base
#636063
oklch(49.3% 0.006 325.7)
Complementary (+180°)
#626063
oklch(49.2% 0.005 314.8)
#616360
oklch(49.7% 0.005 134.9)
base
#A1A3A0
oklch(71.3% 0.005 134.9)
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