August 5
Birthday Color: Ruriiro
#1E50A2 · rgb(30, 80, 162) · hsl(217, 69%, 38%) · CMYK(81,51,0,36)
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Zodiac: Leo ♌
Color words & personality
Ruriiro is the birthday color for August 5. In this system it belongs to a family read as calm and far-seeing. Its color words point to the horizon: you hold the wide view, which helps others stop panicking about today. In print, this color shows a well-measured, settled saturation. Telling someone "the color of my birthday" alone moves the conversation one step forward.
Try it: For a handkerchief or tie — items that stay near you daily.
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Birth flower, star, fish & fruit of August 5
Birth star
Alderamin
Star words: future pole, succession
Cepheus · α Cep · mag 2.45 — Circumpolar — up all night in the northern sky, highest around midnight
Birth flower
Ivy
Meaning: eternal love, friendship
Peak: Jun, Jul, Aug, Sep
Ivy is the August 5 flower. Its lobed leaves cling and climb by aerial roots, covering walls that would otherwise stay bare. Hanakotoba attaches eternal love and friendship to the plant. Peak bloom runs from June through September. The birthday color is Ruriiro (#1E50A2), a deep lapis blue read as "the horizon." A plant that holds on, and a color that keeps going.
Alderamin returns on August 5, this time by etymology: its name is the Arabic for the right arm, and the star marks the arm of King Cepheus — the Ethiopian king of Greek myth, consort of Cassiopeia. Magnitude 2.45 (α Cep). Its star words are future pole and succession. Around midnight it culminates in the south. The day's color is Ruriiro (#1E50A2), the horizon: a king's arm and a lapis-lazuli horizon — a day with an axis that does not waver.
The birthday fish for August 5 is the Ayu sweetfish, said to spend a single summer in a single stretch of river — its fish words are “purity” and “summer days”. In the July–August season, it has long been caught by tomozuri, a traditional lure-fishing method. Today's birth color is Ruriiro (#1E50A2), the deep blue of the horizon. Salt-grilled or lightly fried, a river's summer for the day's table.
Aug 5 belongs to the Sudachi (すだち). Market stalls fill with this citrus fruit around Aug. Fruit words attach "exhilaration and the moment" to the Sudachi. It is in season Aug. Its date also carries the birthday color Ruriiro (#1E50A2). The color word here is "the horizon". A fruit in season and a color of its own — a small way to mark the 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 5?
- The birth flower for August 5 is the Ivy. Its hanakotoba include eternal love, friendship, and its peak season is Jun, Jul, Aug, Sep.
- What is the birth fish for August 5?
- The birth fish for August 5 is the Ayu sweetfish. Its fish words include purity, summer days, and its peak season is Jul, Aug.
- What is the birth fruit for August 5?
- The birth fruit for August 5 is the Sudachi. Its fruit words include exhilaration, the moment, and its peak season is Aug.
- What is the birthday color for August 5?
- The birthday color for August 5 is Ruriiro (#1E50A2). It pairs with the day's flower, Ivy.
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Color palette for Ruriiro
Monochrome (lightness steps)
#407BDC
oklch(59.3% 0.161 259.8)
#1E50A2
oklch(44.6% 0.143 259.9)
base
#102A55
oklch(29.2% 0.084 259.9)
Analogous (±30°)
#1E92A2
oklch(60.7% 0.098 209.3)
#1E50A2
oklch(44.6% 0.143 259.9)
base
#2E1EA2
oklch(36.6% 0.196 276.1)
Complementary (+180°)
#1E50A2
oklch(44.6% 0.143 259.9)
#A2701E
oklch(58.3% 0.112 74.5)
base
#E1B05E
oklch(78.5% 0.115 78.7)
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