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Quick Glance-
This list is a quick-glance list of colors that cats come in.
ALBINO- white
AMBER- Begins black, turns to bright apricot and cinnamon
APRICOT- Pink-brown or bright cream with a shine
BEIGE- Fawn
BLACK- Ebony; jet black
BLUE- Blue-gray
BROWN- Chocolate
CARAMEL- Cool toned bluish fawn: cool pale brown.
CHAMPAGNE- Chocolate in certain breeds.
CHESTNUT- Medium-dark brown
CHOCOLATE- Medium-dark brown
CINNAMON- Milk-chocolate reddish color.
CREAM- Pale creamy color, dilute of red
EBONY- Black
FAWN- Bright cream, light lilac
LIGHT- AMBER Born blue, brightens to pink-beige or fawn
FROST- liliac/lavender
GOLD- Cinnamon
HONEY- Chocolate
INDIGO- Dark blue-gray
LAVENDER- Pale gray, may be pink tinted
LILIAC- Lavender
LIGHT BROWN- Cinnamon
LIGHT CHOCOLATE- Milky chcolate
LIGHT LILAC- Bright cream, light lavender
PEACH- Pink-brown
PLATINUM- Liliac
RED- Rich ginger
RUDDY- Very dark rusty black/red/brown
SABLE- Dark brown or black
SEAL- Dark brown or black
SORREL- Cinnamon
TAUPE- Lighter lilac
TAWNY- Black
WHITE- White
Tabby Patterns-
Tabby banding is thought to be the original, wild pattern of domesticated coats. They often have multi-colored or bi-colored pelts with many bands and "pencil lines". The most common colors are mixtures of brown, which are common among feral cats and are natural camouflage. The pelt pattern is made more complex with "agouti" hairs, which are multiple stripes colors on each individual hair. There are four types of tabby cats, and they come in many different colours, being a generic pattern.
MACKEREL TABBY: Narrow stripes running parallel down the sides, a fish bone pattern, sometimes referred to as tiger cats.
CLASSIC TABBY: Most common tabby with darker swirling patterns over a lighter base coat comparable to a marble cake. Referred to as BLOTCHED TABBY in the UK.
SPOTTED TABBY: Tabby with various sized spots and loops, which can often appear as broken mackerel stripes.
TICKED TABBY: This tabby is not especially identifiable because it does not have stripes or spots on most of it's body. It does have tabby markings on the face and has agouti hairs; striping on the individual hairs of the pelt, resulting in the appearance of darker "tick" marks.
Solids-
Solid colors are fairly simple as far as cat coloring -- they are one solid color, and have no agouti hairs, each hair is one color. This pattern (or lack there of) is referred to as solid, or in the UK as self. Solid pelts are caused by a recessive gene that suppresses tabby markings that would otherwise be there.
BLACK solids have black hair all over. There are some variations of black; coal or ebony black, a lighter black is a very smoky black and the third variation is a very dark brownish black. In sunlight black coats can go through "rusting" which turn them a lighter brown, similar to the ruddy coloring.
BLUE solids are a blue-gray color, commonly known as maltese. The also vary somewhat in shades from a dark slate to a pale ash, and a colour that has a strong blue pigment in the gray fur.
WHITE solids are completely lacking in pigments, and have interestingly varied eye colors. Solid white cats are the most common cats to have blue eyes, but can also have gold and green eyes. They also are the most common recipients of heterochromia, a condition resulting in different colored eyes; which may include a combination of blue, green, orange or yellow.
Patched Patterns-
A bi-color patterned cat is one with two colors making patches or a spot, in contrast to the fading point patterns. One darker color over a white base is the most common bi-color, sometimes with ginger patches (much like the coloration of Brightheart in warriors) or black on white (Barley, as well as many others like Ravenpaw or Tallstar). A bi-color on white has many distinctive names for the patterns and amounts of white . . .
A MITTED cat has white paws.
A LOCKET shape is a white spot on the chest. (Ravenpaw has a locket).
A BUTTON shape is a white belly spot.
A BI-COLOR is nearly half white.
A HARLEQUIN is mostly white and has large patches of color.
A VAN pattered cat has small color patches on the head and tail.
A TUXEDO is a distinctive pattern with white paws, chest, belly and a black black and legs.
Calico/Tortoiseshell Patterns-
Calico cats, or tortoiseshell in the UK (the terms are both used in the US, but tortoiseshell is usual in the UK) are a distinctive type of patched pattern. The most common tortoiseshell pattern for cats without white markings is a tortie patched with red, black and cream, the patches can be large and distinctive or dappled and varied.
The first with more distinctive patches is more commonly referred to as a calico in the US, while a tortoiseshell term is reserved for brindled cats and is also sometimes called calimanco. The second, less common pattern is a blue-cream tortie (blue tortie, dilute tortie) and is a patched blue and cream (the colours are less distinctive then normal tortie, and often appear as a pale color like a dappled gray on white and pale gray, sometimes including pale orange). A torbie is a calico with tabby stripes and can be both the diluted variety or regular. They often have white patches.
When a pelt has white fur included the terms can change. A "Tortoiseshell and white" pattern is a tortie (usually the mottled coat mentioned above) has a small amount of white and the spots and colors are closely mingled. A calico has more white, and the more white the more distinctive the colored patches become, and less dappled like the tortie. A calico is a tortoiseshell, but not all torties are calicos (because they do not have enough white).
[/color]This list is a quick-glance list of colors that cats come in.
ALBINO- white
AMBER- Begins black, turns to bright apricot and cinnamon
APRICOT- Pink-brown or bright cream with a shine
BEIGE- Fawn
BLACK- Ebony; jet black
BLUE- Blue-gray
BROWN- Chocolate
CARAMEL- Cool toned bluish fawn: cool pale brown.
CHAMPAGNE- Chocolate in certain breeds.
CHESTNUT- Medium-dark brown
CHOCOLATE- Medium-dark brown
CINNAMON- Milk-chocolate reddish color.
CREAM- Pale creamy color, dilute of red
EBONY- Black
FAWN- Bright cream, light lilac
LIGHT- AMBER Born blue, brightens to pink-beige or fawn
FROST- liliac/lavender
GOLD- Cinnamon
HONEY- Chocolate
INDIGO- Dark blue-gray
LAVENDER- Pale gray, may be pink tinted
LILIAC- Lavender
LIGHT BROWN- Cinnamon
LIGHT CHOCOLATE- Milky chcolate
LIGHT LILAC- Bright cream, light lavender
PEACH- Pink-brown
PLATINUM- Liliac
RED- Rich ginger
RUDDY- Very dark rusty black/red/brown
SABLE- Dark brown or black
SEAL- Dark brown or black
SORREL- Cinnamon
TAUPE- Lighter lilac
TAWNY- Black
WHITE- White
Tabby Patterns-
Tabby banding is thought to be the original, wild pattern of domesticated coats. They often have multi-colored or bi-colored pelts with many bands and "pencil lines". The most common colors are mixtures of brown, which are common among feral cats and are natural camouflage. The pelt pattern is made more complex with "agouti" hairs, which are multiple stripes colors on each individual hair. There are four types of tabby cats, and they come in many different colours, being a generic pattern.
MACKEREL TABBY: Narrow stripes running parallel down the sides, a fish bone pattern, sometimes referred to as tiger cats.
CLASSIC TABBY: Most common tabby with darker swirling patterns over a lighter base coat comparable to a marble cake. Referred to as BLOTCHED TABBY in the UK.
SPOTTED TABBY: Tabby with various sized spots and loops, which can often appear as broken mackerel stripes.
TICKED TABBY: This tabby is not especially identifiable because it does not have stripes or spots on most of it's body. It does have tabby markings on the face and has agouti hairs; striping on the individual hairs of the pelt, resulting in the appearance of darker "tick" marks.
Solids-
Solid colors are fairly simple as far as cat coloring -- they are one solid color, and have no agouti hairs, each hair is one color. This pattern (or lack there of) is referred to as solid, or in the UK as self. Solid pelts are caused by a recessive gene that suppresses tabby markings that would otherwise be there.
BLACK solids have black hair all over. There are some variations of black; coal or ebony black, a lighter black is a very smoky black and the third variation is a very dark brownish black. In sunlight black coats can go through "rusting" which turn them a lighter brown, similar to the ruddy coloring.
BLUE solids are a blue-gray color, commonly known as maltese. The also vary somewhat in shades from a dark slate to a pale ash, and a colour that has a strong blue pigment in the gray fur.
WHITE solids are completely lacking in pigments, and have interestingly varied eye colors. Solid white cats are the most common cats to have blue eyes, but can also have gold and green eyes. They also are the most common recipients of heterochromia, a condition resulting in different colored eyes; which may include a combination of blue, green, orange or yellow.
Patched Patterns-
A bi-color patterned cat is one with two colors making patches or a spot, in contrast to the fading point patterns. One darker color over a white base is the most common bi-color, sometimes with ginger patches (much like the coloration of Brightheart in warriors) or black on white (Barley, as well as many others like Ravenpaw or Tallstar). A bi-color on white has many distinctive names for the patterns and amounts of white . . .
A MITTED cat has white paws.
A LOCKET shape is a white spot on the chest. (Ravenpaw has a locket).
A BUTTON shape is a white belly spot.
A BI-COLOR is nearly half white.
A HARLEQUIN is mostly white and has large patches of color.
A VAN pattered cat has small color patches on the head and tail.
A TUXEDO is a distinctive pattern with white paws, chest, belly and a black black and legs.
Calico/Tortoiseshell Patterns-
Calico cats, or tortoiseshell in the UK (the terms are both used in the US, but tortoiseshell is usual in the UK) are a distinctive type of patched pattern. The most common tortoiseshell pattern for cats without white markings is a tortie patched with red, black and cream, the patches can be large and distinctive or dappled and varied.
The first with more distinctive patches is more commonly referred to as a calico in the US, while a tortoiseshell term is reserved for brindled cats and is also sometimes called calimanco. The second, less common pattern is a blue-cream tortie (blue tortie, dilute tortie) and is a patched blue and cream (the colours are less distinctive then normal tortie, and often appear as a pale color like a dappled gray on white and pale gray, sometimes including pale orange). A torbie is a calico with tabby stripes and can be both the diluted variety or regular. They often have white patches.
When a pelt has white fur included the terms can change. A "Tortoiseshell and white" pattern is a tortie (usually the mottled coat mentioned above) has a small amount of white and the spots and colors are closely mingled. A calico has more white, and the more white the more distinctive the colored patches become, and less dappled like the tortie. A calico is a tortoiseshell, but not all torties are calicos (because they do not have enough white).
