The Pew Research Center this week repackaged its recent findings on Israeli Jews into an explainer about what a kippah tells you about its wearer.

“In Israel, the type of kippa – or lack thereof – worn by an Israeli Jewish man often is strongly correlated with his religious identity as well as some political views,” Pew noted.

For example, a large black fabric kippah is typically worn by a haredi Orthodox Jew. A colored or patterned crocheted kippah usually adorns the dome of a modern Orthodox Jew. And a black crocheted or knitted kippah-wearer is most likely “traditional.”

Pew does not exhaust all the possibilities for the kinds of kippahs worn and what they mean, however. Below is our research department’s guide to some styles that Pew left out.

Colorful beaded yarmulke

You are a Jewish feminist

Rainbow yarmulke

You are LGBTQ or LGBTQ-friendly

Large pink satin yarmulke

You are attending Stacie’s bat mitzvah

A puffy yarmulke that sits on the head like a dumpling

You are a politician visiting a synagogue for the first time

Elaborate Bukharan yarmulke

You are a Bukharan Jew – or a New Age rabbi

Your kippah matches your tallit

You wore it once – at your bar mitzvah

A crocheted kippah that looks like a slice of watermelon

You were the class clown in Hebrew school

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles kippa

You were bar mitzvahed in 1989

Donald Trump yarmulke

You want to piss off your family at the seder

Red yarmulke

You are a macher in the Catholic Church

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