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Announcement: Cat Colors - A Glossary For Looks! (Read 677 times)
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Cat Colors - A Glossary For Looks! « Thread Started on Jul 30, 2007, 9:28pm »
GLOSSARY
These are some basic terms, though a few things will become clear later when colours and patterns are described in more detail.
Solid/Self The cat is a single colour; the individual hairs are one colour with no agouti banding on the hairs.
Agouti Refers to the several bands of colour (ticking) on a single hair e.g. on Abyssinian cats, ticked tabbies or in the pale areas of a tabby cat.
Maltesing Colour dilution e.g. the dilute of black is blue, of red is cream (grey)
Caramelising Form of dilution which affects maltesed colours e.g. caramelised blue is caramel, caramelised cream is apricot
Sepia (1) Apparently self-coloured cat bearing gene for colourpoint e.g. Burmese series; sometimes you can see that the legs, head and tail are darker than the body.
Sepia (2) The 'old ivory' colour of Singapura cat
Mink Intermediate between sepia and pointed; the points (face, legs, tail) are a darker version of main body colour. Pointed Siamese pattern (also called Himalayan pattern) with a pale body and darker legs, tail and ears.
Bi-Colour (Magpie) Any colour & white; for show cats the colour should be evenly distributed.
Tri-Colour Calico/Tortoiseshell (tortie) & White Colour Range
Parti-Colour Usually defined as calico, with colour patches on up to one-third of the body
Calico Tortoiseshell (tortie) & white
Calimanco, Calamanco Archaic North American term for tortoiseshell shorthair cats
Torbico Torbie (tabby-tortie) & white
Van/Van Bicolour White with colour on the tail between the ears. Harlequin Van markings (any colour) + small patches (as few as possible) of the same colour on the body and legs.
Pied Unevenly splashed with colour.
Mitted White bootees on all four feet, the back bootees usually go up to the hocks, the front bootees are on the toes or paws only
Brindled Tortie with intermingled colours
----------Colors---------- SELF/SOLID COLOURS
Colours have different names in different countries and in different breeds. Different breeds/countries may use the same name for different colours! This section describes the basic colours in as non-specific a way as possible.
Albino White due to lack of pigmentation i.e. white with blue eyes; the most extreme form of albino is a cat with pink eyes.
Amber Bright apricot to cinnamon, with brown nose leather, paw pads and eye rims. Kittens are born dark/black and brighten as they mature. Apricot Pink-brown or hot cream, with a metallic sheen,
Beige Fawn Black Jet-black, called Ebony in Foreigns
Blue Blue-grey; the dilute of black
Brown Chocolate. Burmese "Brown" (called Sable/Seal) is equivalent to black. Caramel Caramelised blue, cafe-au-lait colour (biscuit colour), cool toned bluish fawn, metallic sheen
Champagne Burmese/Tonkinese equivalent to chocolate Chestnut Medium-dark brown, Oriental equivalent to chocolate Chocolate Medium-dark brown
Light Amber Pink-beige to fawn, with blue-grey nose leather, paw pads and eye rims. Kittens are born blue and brighten as they mature.
Light Brown Equivalent to cinnamon
Light chocolate Burmilla Milk chocolate
Light Lilac Equivalent to fawn
Natural Tonkinese equivalent to sable/seal
Peach Australian Mist pink-brown, equivalent to light lilac/fawn. Peach is also seen as a dilute of Russian Blues and may be caramel.
Platinum Burmese/Tonkinese equivalent to lilac/lavender
Red Rich ginger red (poor reds are yellowish due to other genes).
Russet Golden yellow, equivalent to red.
Sable Burmese dark brown (genetically black)
Seal Siamese dark brown (genetically black)
Taupe Caramel dilution of lilac/lavender
White Non-albino white, this is the absence of colour.
Yellow An old term for a poor quality red.
Red, Fawn and Cream are not true self colours as there will always be faint tabby markings. Breeders work to dissipate the tabby markings and give impression of an unpatterned, self-coloured cat.
The usual tabby patterns are Classic (Blotched) Tabby, Mackeral (Striped) Tabby, Spotted Tabby, Ticked Tabby (with some striping) and Ticked/Agouti (with no striping). In addition there are several modified versions of these patterns which are seen in certain breeds.
Braided (Candle Flame) Tabby Tiger-like vertical stripes with hollow centres, may break up into individual "candle-flame" patterns. Classic Tabby Familiar "blotched" tabby pattern with dark stripes down length of back and dark swirls (bullseye) on sides of the body.
Clouded Leopard (Highland Lynx) derived from interaction of wild genes and domestic classic tabby pattern; marble pattern, horizontally aligned with as little bull's eye pattern as possible. Equivalent to Bengal "marble" pattern.
Leopard Modified version of Spotted Tabby. Round spots, coloured to root of hair, ideally the spots are randomly placed, not vertically aligned. Found in hybrid cats (e.g. Bengal, Highland Lynx) where the spotted pattern differs from the spotted tabby.
Mackerel Tabby Vertical unbroken thin lines instead of swirls. Narrow spine lines and "necklaces". The stripes should not break up into spots.
Marble Modified classic tabby with swirled, clouding effect as the vertical orientation of the tabby pattern is affected by the horizontal oriented clouded pattern of the wild ancestor. Described as Ocelot-like. Found in Bengal breed (hybrid) and naturally occurring in the Marbled Australian Mist.
Oceloid Described 1960s, vertically elongated rosettes (candle-flames)
Oyster Tabby Classic tabby i.e. refers to the distinctive bulls-eye on the side.
Patched Tabbies/Tortie-tabby/Torbie Tabby pattern overlaid on a tortie background e.g. deep red markings on red patched areas and black markings on brown patched areas.
Rosette Clusters of spots; the centre of each cluster should be deeper version of background colour. Found in hybrid breeds such as Bengal and Safari where it is confusingly called tricolour (not the same as calico!).
Sokoke Tabby Modified Classic tabby pattern with agouti (background colour) hairs appearing in the solid areas of the coat giving a slightly clouded/marbled effect. Specific to the naturally occurring Sokoke breed from Kenya.
Spotted The pattern of round spots, preferably not vertically aligned, in hybrid breeds.
Spotted Tabby Vertical bars of colour are broken up into spots on the body. Stripes on leg, tail and face. Spots should be as round as possible, rather than elongated. It is often possible to see the vertical alignment of spots. Spine lines should be broken into spots. Possibly a gene for spotted pattern (rather than broken-up stripes) exists.
Ticked Tabby Agouti pattern with ticked body, tabby barring on face, legs and tail, at least one necklace, darker dorsal region, pale lower parts. The pattern of the Wild Abyssinian and of poorly marked agouti patterned cats; intermediate between Agouti and Tabby.
Ticked/Agouti Agouti pattern all over, barring to be absent, as far as possible, from any part of the body. The ticked colour range parallels the tabby colour range.
Genetically, ticking is a tabby pattern, but visually it looks very different. Each individual hair has several bands of colour which affects the apparent colour of the cat. Some colours are linked to the cat's sex (important to breeders/exhibitors).
Black (Experimental colour) The black fur has a distinct "shimmer" due to barely visible ticking, similar effect in Chausie breed has silver-tipped fur.
Blue Blue-grey; the dilute of black
Brown Equivalent to black (more commonly called Usual or Tawny)
Chestnut/Chocolate Medium-dark brown.
Cream True (sex-linked) cream, dilute of sex-linked red
Ebony Foreign equivalent to black Fawn (Beige) non sex-linked cream (dilute sorrel) Golden Any colour ticking on a golden undercoat
Ivory warm beige ticking on ivory (Singapura)
Lavender (Lilac) Warm blue-brown, pinkish frosty grey (dove grey), dilute of Chocolate Manilla black/dark ticking on sandy-golden (Celonese/Ceylon Cat)
Red Rich ginger red (sex-linked red) Ruddy Equivalent to black/brown, also called Usual, Brown, Tawny
Sable Burmese dark brown (genetically black)
Seal Siamese dark brown (genetically black)
Silver Any colour ticking on a silver undercoat
Sorrel Equivalent to cinnamon, non sex-linked red.
Taupe Caramel dilution of lilac/lavender
Tawny Abyssinian/Somali: Equivalent to black/brown, also called Usual, Brown, Ruddy; it is also the ticked sandy/golden colour found in a some wild/domestic hybrid breeds, a sort of russet color.
Usual Equivalent to black/brown, also called Ruddy, Brown, Tawny White Suqutranese (white Somali-type): pure white, translucent silver-white bands on hair visible in good light as sparkling effect
Because agouti is a type of tabby, those colours can combine with the tortoiseshell markings to give ticked tortoiseshells. Some of these can be difficult to distinguish because ticking obscures the colours. The ticked colours and ticked tortie colours can be patched with white to give ticked bicolours, but this is presently only seen in non-pedigree cats. Examples:
Ticked Tortoiseshell Areas of usual (black) and Red (sex-linked) ticking.
Blue Ticked Tortoiseshell Ticked blue-cream
Chocolate Ticked Tortoiseshell Ticked fawn and chocolate.
------------Silver and Gold, Silver and Gold--------- SILVER AND GOLDEN TICKED TABBIES
Ticking can occur on a silver or gold undercoat in permutations equivalent to silver tabbies and golden tabbies. Silver Abyssinians and Silver Somalis are popular in Britain but rare in the US. The Alaskan Snow Cat has the Silver Abyssinian coat pattern. For example:
Golden (Golden Usual/Golden Ruddy) Usual (black) ticking on a golden background. Sorrel Silver Sorrel ticking on silver background Blue Silver Blue ticking on silver background. Chocolate Silver Chocolate ticking on silver background.
Ruddy Silver Ticked Tortie Ruddy Ticked Tortoiseshell on a silver background,
Blue Silver Ticked Tortoiseshell Blue Ticked Tortoiseshell (Blue-Cream Ticked) on silver backgrounds
Chocolate Silver Ticked Tortoiseshell Chocolate tortoiseshell on silver background
Tabby means dark markings (stripes, swirls, spots) on a paler background. The stripe colour is solid (goes right to the hair root), but the background colour is agouti (each hair is banded with colour). Different breeds may use different names for the same colour.
Amber Tabby Black markings on apricot background at birth. The black markings brighten to reddish-brown or cinnamon at maturity. The nose is pink and the paw pads and eye rims are brown.
Blue Tabby cream/ivory-blue base, slate blue markings
Brown (Black, Ebony) Tabby coppery-brown base, black markings
Chocolate (Chestnut) Tabby cream base, milk-chocolate brown markings
Cameo Tabby cream base, pale red markings (aka Red-Silver Tabby)
Caramel Tabby cream base, biscuit-colour markings
Chestnut Tabby ivory base, medium-dark brown markings
Chocolate Tabby ivory base, medium-dark brown markings (= Chestnut Tabby) Cinnamon Tabby pale brown base, cinnamon markings
Cream Tabby pale cream base, fawn/buff markings Fawn Tabby pale pink-beige base, lilac markings
Golden Tabby tabby on golden undercoat (see chinchilla/shaded section) e.g. Chocolate Golden Tabby etc
Light Amber Tabby Blue markings on apricot background at birth. The blue markings brighten to pink-beige to fawn at maturity. The nose is pink and the paw pads and eye rims are blue-grey. Red Tabby pale red base, deep red markings Silver Tabby silver base, black markings, aka Black Silver Tabby. Silver Tabbies with coloured markings on a silvery background are called Blue Silver, Red Silver (aka Cameo Tabby) etc.
As well as the various permutations of tabby/silver tabby/golden tabby, spotted/silver spotted/golden spotted there are some terms specific to the modified tabby markings and specific colourways of certain breeds. These are really just more descriptive alternatives to the more common terms above.
Tortoiseshell is the mixing of two or more distinct colours; one of the colours is red or cream. The black/orange tortie will be familiar to most readers. In pedigree cats, well defined patches of each colour are preferred. Cats with tabby markings on a tortie background are known as tabby-torties/patched tabbies/torbies. Where the hairs are mixed together, the cat is referred to as brindled. Almost all tortie/tortie-and-white cats are female; males do occur sometimes but they are either infertile or they have a genetic aberration and do not bred true. Tortoiseshell Black/Orange (tabby markings visible on the orange patches)
Dilute Tortoiseshell Blue-Cream (tabby visible on cream patches)
Amber Tortoiseshell The black areas are replaced by amber. Kittens are born with black markings that brighten to amber as they mature.
Brown Tortoiseshell (Burmese version of black/orange Tortoiseshell)
Chocolate (Chestnut) Tortoiseshell Warm milk chocolate, red, and cream
Cinnamon Tortoiseshell Milk-chocolate brown and cream (Burmese)
Lilac (Lavender) Tortoiseshell Frosty lilac-grey and cream
Light Amber Tortoiseshell The blue areas are replaced by amber; kittens are born with blue but this brightens to light amber as they mature.
Patched Tortoiseshell The above tortoiseshell patters can also occur in combination with the tabby pattern e.g. Blue Tabby Tortie, Lilac Tabby Tortie, Silver Tabby Tortie etc Bicolour Solid colours can occur patched with white e.g. Black and White, Cream and White (faint tabby markings), Chocolate and White.
Tabby-and-White Tabby patterns can occur patched with white e.g. Blue Tabby and White, Red Tabby and White, Silver Tabby and White. Ticked colours can occur patched with white.
Tortie-and-White Tortie patterns occur with white e.g. Tortoiseshell & White (Calico), Dilute Tortoiseshell & White (Dilute Calico/Blue-Cream and White), Chocolate (Chestnut) Tortie and White (Choc-Cream & White/Chestnut Calico), Lilac (Lavender) Tortie & White (Lilac-Cream & White/Lavender Calico) etc.
Silver Tortoiseshell / Silver Tortoiseshell Tabby Tortoiseshell and Tortie-Tabby patterns can occur on silver backgrounds e.g. Blue Silver Tortoiseshell/Tortie Tabby/Tabby, Fawn Silver Tortoiseshell/Tortie Tabby/Tabby, Red Silver Tortoiseshell/Tortie Tabby/Tabby etc and on golden backgrounds.
Tipped and Smoke Tortoiseshell These are described in the section on chinchilla, tipped, shaded and smoke colours and have silver or golden undercoats (Continued in next post)
Re: Cat Colors - A Glossary For Looks! « Reply #1 on Jul 30, 2007, 9:29pm »
---------Chinchillas (Not the tacos!) And Other Things!---------- CHINCHILLA (SHELL), TIPPED (SHORTHAIR TIPPED), SHADED, AND SMOKE COLOUR GROUP
Chinchilla (shell) is the lightest tipping; hair tip is coloured and hair shaft is silver, giving a sparkling appearance. Shaded is next degree; colour extends further along the hair shaft, darkest on the back to create a mantle of shading. Smoke is heaviest tipping; undercoat colour is reduced to a small band near the hair root, the cat appears to be solid with pale ruff/frill until the coat is parted or the cat is in motion. In the golden series, the undercoat is gold rather than white. The terms "chinchilla" and "shell" are mostly used for longhairs (Persians), in shorthairs this is called tipped.
Silver series White undercoat with colour tips.
Golden series Gold undercoat with colour tips
Shell Chinchilla tipping
Cameo Red (a term sometimes used in longhairs with red on a silver undercoat)
Cream Cameo Cream (dilute of Red/Cameo)
Silver Tabby Coloured markings on silvered/ivory ground colour e.g. Red-Silver (Cameo) Tabby which is red on ivory.
Tortie Chinchilla/Shell Tortie/Silver Tortie Pale undercoat tipped in tortie combination of colours.
Shaded Tortie/ Tortoiseshell Shaded Silver Pale undercoat tipped/shaded with tortie combination of colours (e.g. black red and cream). Tipping ranges from shell (chinchilla) to shaded.
Smoke Tortoiseshell/ Tortie Smoke Pale undercoat smoked with tortie combination of colours. Undercoat only visible when cat is in motion.
Silver Patched Tabby Coloured markings on silvered ground colour interspersed with patches or red and/or cream (or other tortie combinations).
Golden Patched Tabby Coloured markings on golden ground colour interspersed with patches or red and/or cream (or other tortie combinations). The first chinchillas/shaded silvers/smokes were longhairs which had black tipping or shading. Black on silver gives:
Chinchilla aka Silver/Silver Chinchilla/Tipped (called Burmilla in Asian group of cats)
Shaded Silver blue/green eyes, darker than Chinchilla
Masked Silver shaded silver with dark face/paws
Pewter/Pewter Tipped orange-eyed Shaded Silver/Chinchilla (this was the original eye colour of the breed, but fell out of favour in the 1890s)
Silver Tabby black tabby markings on silver background
Black Smoke looks solid black until you part the fur which is pale near the roots
Other tipped/shaded/smoke colours used the above naming convention, but named the particular colour e.g. Blue on Silver gives:
Blue Chinchilla Blue Shaded Silver Blue Pewter Blue Silver Tabby Blue Smoke Blue Silver Tortoiseshell/Tortie Tabby
Other colours on silver follow the same formula e.g. Chocolate (Chestnut) Chinchilla, Lavender (Lilac) Shaded Silver etc. Red or cream on silver are also earlier developed colours and these have some historically-based synonyms as well as names following the usual formula:
Blue Cream Chinchilla = Shell Dilute Tortoiseshell Blue Cream Shaded = Shaded Dilute Tortoiseshell Blue Cream Smoke = Smoke Dilute Tortoiseshell
-----------The Golden Group-------- GOLDEN COLOUR GROUP
The golden series is less common. Like the silvers, the colour is on a paler undercoat, but in this case golden. Golden series is named using a similar formula to the silver series e.g.:
Golden Chinchilla Shaded Golden Blue Shaded Golden (etc) Golden Tabby Golden Tabby-Tortie Golden Ticked Tabby Chocolate Golden Ticked Tabby (etc) Tortoiseshell Golden Chinchilla Tortoiseshell Shaded Golden Tortoiseshell Golden Smoke
---------Tipped Specific-------- BREED SPECIFIC TIPPED
There is a breed specific tipped colour found in the Chausie which is distinct from the tipped colours above.
Silver Tipped Black hairs tipped with silver, appears to be a form of black agouti rather than smoke or silver.
----------Points-------- COLOURPOINTS
Often called the Siamese pattern or Himalayan pattern (after Himalayan rabbits). As well as the colourpointed coat, they have blue eyes. Pointed cats are slow to develop their full body and point colour and kittens/young cats have paler points or markings Older cats have darker body colour. Temperature affects the point colour - the coldest areas (the 'points' i.e. ears, legs, tail) are darker than the body and things like environment temperature, a fever or even bandaging a leg because of injury will affect the colour. The types of point pattern are: Solid Point points are of solid colour e.g. seal (dark brown), blue (grey)
Lynx/Tabby Point points have tabby markings
Tortie Point points have tortoiseshell (multicolour) markings
Abyssinian Point points are ticked (i.e. agouti)
Pastel Point chinchilla/shaded silver tipped points (pale colour on silvery background) (Tipped Siamese)
Shadow/Smoke Points shaded points, shadowy tabby markings (darker version of chinchilla)
Snow Tiger alternate term for Lynx/Tabby Points
Bicolour Point Colour point with white markings on the coloured areas (present, but less apparent, on the body) e.g. white paws.
Apricot Point Pinkish brown points
Blue Point bluish white body, slate blue points
Caramel Point cafe-au-lait colour points
Chocolate Point ivory body, milk chocolate points
Cinnamon Point milk-chocolate colour points
Cream (Ivory) Point creamy white body, buff-cream points.
Fawn (Light Lilac) Point Hot cream points
Lavender Point pinkish lilac points
Lilac (Frost) Point glacial white body, frosty pinkish grey points
Red (Flame) Point creamy white body, deep orange to red points
Seal Point cream/pale fawn body, deep seal brown points
As well as solid colours on the points, there are tabby (lynx) and tortoiseshell points. These can be hard to tell apart without knowing the colours of the cats ancestors:
Seal Tabby Point/Seal Lynx Point cream/fawn body, points brown with seal brown bars.
Blue Tabby Point/Blue Lynx Point bluish white body, points deep blue on pale blue.
Caramel Tabby Point/Caramel Lynx Point (Needs info, PM me if you know)
Chocolate Tabby Point/Chocolate Lynx Point ivory body, points warm milk chocolate on paler background
Cinnamon Tabby Point/Cinnamon Lynx Point (Needs info, PM me if you know)
Lilac (Frost) Tabby Point/Lilac (Frost) Lynx Point glacial white body, points frosty grey with pinkish points
Red (Flame) Tabby Point/Red Lynx Point white body, points deep red bars red.
Cream Tabby Point/Cream Lynx Point white body, points buff bars on pale cream.
Seal Tortoiseshell Point body creamy white, points seal brown patched with red and/or cream
Blue Tortoiseshell Point/Blue Cream Point body bluish white/creamy white, points slate blue patched with cream.
Chocolate Tortoiseshell Point/Chocolate Cream Point ivory body, points milk chocolate patched with red and/or cream Lilac (Frost) Tortoiseshell Point/Lilac Cream Point glacial white body, frosty pinkish grey points patched with cream.
Seal Tabby Tortoiseshell Point/Seal Tortie Lynx Point body cream/pale fawn, points brown with seal brown markings and red and/or cream markings.
Blue Tabby Tortoiseshell Point/Blue Tortie Lynx Point bluish white body, points pale blue with slate blue markings with patches of cream.
Caramel Tabby Tortoiseshell Point/Caramel Tortie Lynx Point (Needs info, PM me if you know)
Chocolate Tabby Tortoiseshell Point/Chocolate Tortie Lynx Point body ivory, points pale chocolate barred with warm milk chocolate with red and/or cream patches. Cinnamon Tabby Tortoiseshell Point/Cinnamon Torrtie Lynx Point (Needs info, PM me if you know)
Lilac (Frost) Tabby Tortoiseshell Point/Lilac (Frost) Tortie Lynx Point (Needs info, PM me if you know)
A relatively recent experimental development is the silver tabby point. Silver Tabby Tortoiseshells are possible and would use the above formula for their names.
Blue Silver Tabby Point points silvery with slate blue barring
Seal Silver Tabby Point points silvery with seal barring
Red Silver Tabby Point points silvery with red markings
Cream Silver Tabby Point points silvery with cream markings
----------Minky!-------- MINK COLOURS (TONKINESE)
Minks are pointed cats with much darker bodies and less (although still apparent) contrast between body colour and point colour. Mink is a halfway-house between solid colour (Burmese) and colourpoint (Siamese). In theory, Tonkinese occur in versions of all Burmese (solid) colours - the list below gives the Burmese equivalent name for some of the mink colours. Mink-colour cats have blue, aqua or blue green eyes. In Australia, Tonkinese are found in spotted, tabby, ticked, tortie and tortie-tabby varieties and in the silver series. Many registries use the Oriental or Burmese colour name, not the "mink" term.
Blue Mink Ash blue (with warm fawn tones) body, medium/slate blue points.
Champagne Mink (Chocolate) buff cream/light tan body, points golden tan to milk chocolate
Honey Mink (Cinnamon)
Natural Mink (Black/Seal) Medium brown body, deep seal brown points.
Platinum Mink (Lavender/Lilac) Pale silver/pearly grey body (with light fawn tones), points pale dove grey to light taupe grey
Red Mink Pale red body, darker red points with ghost tabby markings
Cinnamon Mink (Honey)
Fawn Mink A "hotter version" of cream.
Cream Mink
---------Vans and Trucks!------ VAN, VAN BI-COLOUR, HARLEQUIN, SEYCHELLES GROUP
Van Pattern is also called Grade 8 - Grade 9 Piebald. It is the most extreme of the 'Seychelles' patterns, comprising patches on head at base of each ear; tail same colour as patches, often with darker rings because red and cream are not true solid colours. Van Bi-Colours & Harlequins have additional markings on legs, one or two small patches on body. Beware: in Turkey, the term Turkish Van does not refer to a patterned cat!! The Seychellois is a Van-pattern cat of oriental type.
The 3 Seychellois patterns are:
Seychellois Neuvieme white, coloured tail & head splashes
Seychellois Huitieme has additional leg splashes
Seychellois Septieme has leg & with body splashes
Other colours are being developed in Van pattern cats. In theory any solid, tabby or tortie colour can occur in the Van pattern. The current colours of Van-pattern cats (Turkish Van and Van Bi-Colour) are:
Auburn and White original Turkish Van breed colour - red-tabby markings
Black and White black markings
Blue and White ash grey markings
Cream and White dilute of auburn - cream-tabby markings
Tortoiseshell and White tortie/blue-cream markings
The following are colourpointed cat appearing to have white mitts. The 'Mitted Pattern' is found in the Snowshoe, Birman and Ragdoll. The mitted pattern can occur with any of the colourpoint colours and patterns. There are six Ragdoll patterns, only three of which have competition status:- Colourpoint, Bi-colour and Mitted. The other three patterns are High Mitted (mitts extend up legs), Mid-High White (Bi-colour with additional white in "saddle" area) and High White (Bi-colour with even greater degree of white, "saddle" may be absent). The Piawaian Kucing Malaysia has a Ragdoll-type Seal Point Mitted pattern. Other colours are being developed in Ragdolls.
Seal Point Bi-Colour Seal brown ears, tail, mask, "saddle"
Seal Point Colourpoint Siamese pattern
Seal Point Mitted Birman pattern, dark body, white face blaze, belly, boots & mitts
Blue Point Bi-Colour/ Colourpoint/Mitted as above but with blue (grey)
Chocolate Point Bi-Colour/Colourpoint/Mitted as above but with chocolate
Lilac Point Bi-Colour/ Colourpoint/Mitted as above but with lilac
Lynx Point Bi-Colour/ Colourpoint/Mitted tabby-patterned points (various colours)
Red (Flame) Point Bi-Colour/Colourpoint/Mitted red (red tabby, flame) points
The following colours are found in other species, some have been observed in cats, but have not been standardized or developed further. Some may be introduced by outcrossing to wild cats, as was rosetting/marbling in the Bengal.
Yellow True yellow (as seen in palomino horse), the ‘Palomino’ breed was said to be the colour of a brown grocery bag. Historically, "yellow" meant sandy-coloured reds.
Banded (Belted) Solid colour with a solid band of white around middle of body (seen in Dutch Rabbits) - some Spanish street cats already exhibit this pattern but it has not been developed. Sheeted Solid colour with a wide band of colour (shoulder to haunches) (seen in some breeds of cattle) Quadricolours Patches in 4 distinct colours. I've seen only one example - a blue/cream/white tortie with a black/grey/white face; this may have been a form of mosaicism. The overall distribution of colour was akin to a Bicolor Ragdoll (saddle, mask, white blaze). Eyes were blue. These may possibly be chimaeras (resulting from two fused embryos).
Other Tricolours These look like torties, i.e. red with small black spots or patches but are genetically red/red tabby cats with localised skin mutations or are chimaeras (resulting from 2 fused embryos). This is more and more being seen in cats and has resulted to grey-black-and-white cats, red-blue-and-white cats and cream-black-and-white cats. A mutant exhibiting Black-Yellow-White has occurred, the cat resembled a Jack Russell terrier, having a pointed face, long ears & bowed back legs. These cats breed as bicolours depending on which embryo cells form the ovaries or testes. Others are sterile due to XXY makeup. These quirks account for tortie tomcats.
New colourpoints Dark points on a solid coloured body (as seen in dun horses) or white/pale points on a dark body (seen in some pig breeds).
New Tabbies Horizontal stripes, reversed tabby patterns with light markings on a darker base, true spotting, clouding & marbling. Some of these effects are seen in wild cat species. Black and Tan Black upper body and outside leg, tan lower body and inside leg as seen in Doberman dogs (where it is a mutation of agouti). There is a sharp dividing line between the black and tan parts (a "waterline").
Blue and Tan Dilute of black & tan, dove-grey upper (agouti mutation). Other colours and tan might then be possible.
Zebra, Dalmatian, Appaloosa These would be striped and spotted as per the dogs and horses of those names.
Pink/Red Eyed Dilutes Seen in rodents, may already have occurred. A pink-eyed dilute has been reported, cat was tan with pink eyes. Kittens born to her were premature & stillborn. A pink-eyed white kitten was born in a cat shelter in the UK but died as a kitten.
Satin Not actually a colour, but a fur type which would have an effect on how the colour appeared. It would add a sheen to the coat by reflect light in a different way (seen in mice). A form of "glitter" is seen in some Bengal cats
Green Green is not found in any mammal at present. The famous Danish green kitten was a temporary colour due to copper contamination.
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