Birthday Color Cafein
Birthday Color Cafein alternative: a birthday colour you can actually use
Birthday Color Cafein is where the idea of a colour for every day of the year became popular, and it now runs in both Japanese and English editions. This page sets out what each site gives you.
Written from each product's own public pages. Their page, for reference: birthday-color.cafein.jp
What each one gives you
| What you get | This site | Birthday Color Cafein |
|---|---|---|
| Where the palette comes from | One authored palette of 366 colours, with a reading for each day | A 366-colour chart; the rebuilt English edition uses 64 traditional Chinese colours by season |
| Cultural depth | Colour names, families and hexes, for people who want to use the colour | Ink, silk and porcelain colour names, with the classical tradition around them |
| Design data | Colour names and their meaning, built for reading | Colour names and meanings; built for reading |
| Money | Free colour pages, with paid readings alongside | Free colour pages, with paid fortune reports alongside |
| Languages | Seven, each with its own day pages and translated readings | Japanese and English editions |
Where Birthday Color Cafein is the better choice
For the cultural story behind the tradition - the classical colour names, the ink and porcelain references, and the fortune-reading material - Cafein goes further than we do. We write about colour for use, not about fortune.
Questions people ask about Birthday Color Cafein
Is this the same as birthday color cafein?
No. Birthday Color Cafein is a separate site that grew out of the Japanese tradition of pairing each of the 366 days with a colour. We build our own palette, with a hex code, a full palette and a reading for every date, in seven languages.
Which birthday colour is the real one?
Neither chart is official: a colour for a date is a modern idea, and each site authors its own palette. What matters is that the colour for a date stays the same on the site you use, which it does here - September 18 is the same colour every year.
Is this site birthday color cafein, caffein or caffeine?
None of those: this is a separate site. The Japanese tradition is usually spelled cafein, and people arrive here having typed caffein, caffeine, cafeine or colour cafein. Whatever you typed, the tool above gives you the colour for your date in seven languages, free, with no app and no account.
Do you do fortune or astrology readings?
No. Every page here is about the colour itself: its hex value and palette, and a short reading written to describe the day rather than to predict anything.
Find the colour for your date
Enter a month and a day, and the page opens with the colour, its hex code, its palette and its reading.