August 11
Birthday Color: Kuwanomiiro
#55295B · rgb(85, 41, 91) · hsl(293, 38%, 26%) · CMYK(7,55,0,64)
CMYK values are numeric conversions from RGB and may differ from print standards.
Zodiac: Leo ♌
Color words & personality
Read through the color words of August 11, Kuwanomiiro behaves like loving in a direct, unbending way. Its color words point to an early-spring breeze: you carry the first warmth into a season still cold. In print, this color shows a deep tone that absorbs rather than reflects light. Birthday colors are not science — enjoy them as part of your birth-date identity.
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Birth flower, star, fish & fruit of August 11
Birth star
Enif
Star words: intuition, scent
Pegasus · ε Peg · mag 2.38 — Culminates around midnight
Birth flower
Coleus
Meaning: a good household, hope in love
Peak: Jul, Aug, Sep
Birth fruit
Japanese pear
Fruit words: juiciness, sincerity
Peak: Aug, Sep
Coleus is the flower for August 11. The plant is grown for its patterned leaves, which can carry three or four colors on a single blade. A good household and hope in love are the hanakotoba meanings. Kuwanomiiro (#55295B) is the birthday color, a deep mulberry whose color word is "an early-spring breeze." Its peak runs July through September. Pattern above, stillness below.
Enif, at the nose of Pegasus (ε Peg), takes August 11 — magnitude 2.38; its name is simply the Arabic for nose. An orange supergiant, it is among the most distant naked-eye stars, its light traveling centuries to reach you. Its star words are intuition and scent. Around midnight it crosses the southern meridian. The day's color is Kuwanomiiro (#55295B), an early-spring breeze: light from far away, and a wind that reads the season ahead — a day that scents what comes next.
The birthday fish for August 11 is the Yellowfin tuna, known for the yellow of its fins and for swimming remarkably fast — its fish words are “sunlight” and “fleetness”. The season runs through July and August, when its lean, clean red meat suits the summer table. Today's birth color is Kuwanomiiro (#55295B), a quiet, deep mulberry purple. Straightforward speed, served to the day's table.
The birth fruit for Aug 11 is the Japanese pear (日本なし). Aug and Sep is when this pome fruit tastes its best. Fruit words attach "juiciness and sincerity" to the Japanese pear. It is in season Aug and Sep. The birthday color for this date is Kuwanomiiro (#55295B). The color word here is "an early-spring breeze". 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 August 11?
- The birth flower for August 11 is the Coleus. Its hanakotoba include a good household, hope in love, and its peak season is Jul, Aug, Sep.
- What is the birth fish for August 11?
- The birth fish for August 11 is the Yellowfin tuna. Its fish words include sunlight, fleetness, and its peak season is Jul, Aug.
- What is the birth fruit for August 11?
- The birth fruit for August 11 is the Japanese pear. Its fruit words include juiciness, sincerity, and its peak season is Aug, Sep.
- What is the birthday color for August 11?
- The birthday color for August 11 is Kuwanomiiro (#55295B). It pairs with the day's flower, Coleus.
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Color palette for Kuwanomiiro
Monochrome (lightness steps)
#90469A
oklch(52.0% 0.149 322.7)
#55295B
oklch(36.2% 0.098 322.7)
base
#1A0D1C
oklch(18.5% 0.036 322.0)
Analogous (±30°)
#3C295B
oklch(33.0% 0.087 299.1)
#55295B
oklch(36.2% 0.098 322.7)
base
#5B2948
oklch(36.1% 0.084 344.1)
Complementary (+180°)
#55295B
oklch(36.2% 0.098 322.7)
#2F5B29
oklch(42.6% 0.092 141.4)
base
#5EB152
oklch(68.6% 0.155 141.2)
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