September 26
Birthday Color: Tangerine Orange
#F37F44 · rgb(243, 127, 68) · hsl(20, 88%, 61%) · CMYK(0,48,72,5)
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Zodiac: Libra ♎
Color words & personality
If you were born on September 26, your color Tangerine Orange reads as practical and warm. Its color words point to harvest: you know how to turn a season of effort into something people can actually taste and share. In print, this color shows a vivid, confident saturation. Write it down; years later it becomes a way to reread yourself.
Try it: An easy accent for nails and small goods that lifts the room.
As a gift: Orange suits practical gifts — the ones you actually use. → Pick a gift color by birthday color
Birth flower, star, fish & fruit of September 26
Birth star
Achird
Star words: neighborliness, closeness
Cassiopeia · η Cas · mag 3.46 — Circumpolar — up all night in the northern sky, highest around midnight
Birth flower
Yellow cosmos
Meaning: wild beauty, harmony
Peak: Aug, Sep, Oct
Birth fish
Long-arm octopus
Fish words: petite summer, reach
Peak: Aug, Sep
Yellow cosmos takes September 26. Finer and more saturated than the pink cosmos, it brings a wilder yellow to autumn beds and self-seeds freely. Its hanakotoba pairs wild beauty with harmony. Tangerine Orange (#F37F44) is the birthday color, read as "harvest." Peak season runs August through October. A loose, unbothered flower over a color of gathered warmth.
Some stars feel like neighbors. Achird, Eta Cassiopeiae — September 26's star — is one of them, under twenty light-years away. A sunlike yellow primary and an orange companion circle in company, shining at third magnitude. Its star words are neighborliness and closeness. Around midnight it twinkles at the top of the south, warm as a lamp in a next-door window. Your birth color is Tangerine Orange (#F37F44), its color word ripening — fruit almost ready, and a star that feels like home.
September 26's birth fish is the Long-arm octopus, a small body holding its savor tight. Fish words: “petite summer” and “reach”. Cooked with rice, it stands in for dashi and seasons every grain. Peak season: August and September. The birth color of the day is Tangerine Orange (#F37F44), the color of harvest. Let it close a season at the day's table.
The birth fruit for Sep 26 is the Passion fruit (パッションフルーツ). Market stalls fill with this tropical fruit around Sep. The fruit words for this date read "devotion and aroma". Sep is its season. Its date also carries the birthday color Tangerine Orange (#F37F44). The color word here is "harvest". One fruit, one color, one 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 September 26?
- The birth flower for September 26 is the Yellow cosmos. Its hanakotoba include wild beauty, harmony, and its peak season is Aug, Sep, Oct.
- What is the birth fish for September 26?
- The birth fish for September 26 is the Long-arm octopus. Its fish words include petite summer, reach, and its peak season is Aug, Sep.
- What is the birth fruit for September 26?
- The birth fruit for September 26 is the Passion fruit. Its fruit words include devotion, aroma, and its peak season is Sep.
- What is the birthday color for September 26?
- The birthday color for September 26 is Tangerine Orange (#F37F44). It pairs with the day's flower, Yellow cosmos.
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Color palette for Tangerine Orange
Monochrome (lightness steps)
#F9BA9A
oklch(83.9% 0.085 48.1)
#F37F44
oklch(71.7% 0.160 45.7)
base
#CE4E0D
oklch(58.9% 0.175 41.3)
Analogous (±30°)
#F34461
oklch(64.8% 0.210 16.2)
#F37F44
oklch(71.7% 0.160 45.7)
base
#F3D644
oklch(87.6% 0.160 97.6)
Complementary (+180°)
#F37F44
oklch(71.7% 0.160 45.7)
#44B8F3
oklch(74.3% 0.133 235.0)
base
#BCE5FB
oklch(90.0% 0.052 231.5)
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