KeepsakeMom
KeepsakeMom alternative: a birthday colour you can actually use
KeepsakeMom's birth colour page lists a colour for each month, tied to that month's birthstone, and sells keepsake jewellery made in it. This page sets out what each of us is for.
Written from each product's own public pages. Their page, for reference: www.keepsakemom.com/birth-colors
What each one gives you
| What you get | This site | KeepsakeMom |
|---|---|---|
| How fine the answer is | A colour for every one of the 366 days, plus a page per month | One colour, sometimes two or three, for the whole month |
| What decides the colour | An authored palette, written by season | The month's birthstone: garnet, amethyst, aquamarine, diamond and so on |
| Design values | Hex, RGB and HSL values, plus tints, shades and colour harmonies | Colour names such as Dark Red / Garnet, used in photographs of their jewellery |
| What you do with the colour | Copy the code into a design tool, or read the day's colour | Have the colour set into a keepsake piece you order |
| Cost | Free tool; the optional colour report is a one-time purchase | The guide is free; the jewellery it points to starts around $119 |
| Languages | English, Spanish, German, French, Italian, Japanese, Korean | English |
Where KeepsakeMom is the better choice
If you want the colour as something you can hold - the month's colour set into a keepsake piece for a new parent - KeepsakeMom is the shop for that and nothing here is. A month-level answer is also the familiar birthstone answer, so for a jewellery gift it is the more natural place to start.
Questions people ask about KeepsakeMom
Are birth month colours the same as birthstones?
On KeepsakeMom's page they are: each month's colour is read off its birthstone, so January is garnet red and December is turquoise. Here the colour belongs to a date rather than to a month, so all of January does not share one colour.
Do you sell jewellery in my birth colour?
No. Nothing is sold here but the optional colour report. Every page gives you the colour's hex, RGB and HSL values so you can use it anywhere you like.
What are the birth month colours?
By the birthstone convention: January garnet red, February amethyst purple, March aquamarine light blue, April diamond clear, May emerald green, June pearl, July ruby red, August peridot light green, September sapphire deep blue, October tourmaline pink, November topaz yellow, December turquoise. Here you can also get a distinct colour for the exact day.
Where do your colours come from?
KeepsakeMom's list comes from birthstones. The palette here is one of 366 colours written for this site, one for each day, each with a hex code and a reading.
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.