RINGKASAN (ISTILAH DASAR)
| Bi-Colour (Magpie) | Any colour & white; for show cats the colour should be evenly distributed. |
| Brindled | Tortie with intermingled colours |
| Calico | Tortoiseshell (tortie) & white |
| Calimanco, Calamanco | Archaic North American term for tortoiseshell shorthair cats |
| Caramelising | Form of dilution which affects maltesed colours e.g. caramelised blue is caramel, caramelised cream is apricot |
| Harlequin | Van markings (any colour) + small patches (as few as possible) of the same colour on the body and legs. |
| Maltesing | Colour dilution e.g. the dilute of black is blue, of red is cream (grey) |
| Mink | Intermediate between sepia and pointed; the points (face, legs, tail) are a darker version of main body 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 |
| Parti-Colour | Usually defined as calico, with colour patches on up to one-third of the body |
| Pied | Unevenly splashed with colour. |
| Pointed | Siamese pattern (also called Himalayan pattern) with a pale body and darker legs, tail and ears. |
| 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 |
| Solid/Self | The cat is a single colour; the individual hairs are one colour with no agouti banding on the hairs. |
| Ticked/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. |
| Torbico | Torbie (tabby-tortie) & white |
| Tri-Colour | Calico/Tortoiseshell (tortie) & White Colour Range |
| Van/Van Bicolour | White with colour on the tail between the ears. |
SOLID/SELF COLOURS
| 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 |
| Cinnamon | Milk-chocolate (reddish) colour (Light Brown) |
| Cream | Buff, dilute of red |
| Ebony | Foreign equivalent to black |
| Fawn | Hot cream, equivalent to Light Lilac; historically a biscuity colour. |
| Frost | Alternate name for Lilac/lavender |
| Gold | Equivalent to cinnamon |
| Honey | Equivalent to chocolate/chestnut (or to Cinnamon) |
| Indigo | Dark blue or deep grey |
| Lavender | Warm blue-brown, pinkish frosty grey (dove grey), dilute of Chocolate |
| 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 |
| Lilac | Lavender |
| 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). |
| 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. |
TABBY PATTERNS
| 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. |
TICKED/AGOUTI COLOURS
| 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 |
| 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 |
TICKED TORTOISESHELLS
| 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 | |
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: | |
| Silver (Silver Usual/ Silver Ruddy), | Usual (black) ticking on silver background. |
| 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 COLOURS
| 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 |
| Lavender (Lilac) Tabby | milky cream base, frosty grey markings |
| 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. |
BREED-SPECIFIC TABBY/SPOTTED TERMS
| 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. | |
| Bronze Spotted | (Egyptian Mau) = Chocolate Spotted Tabby |
| Bronze | (California Spangled) |
| Charcoal | (California Spangled) |
| Cinnamon-Golden (Bronze) Spotted | (Ocicat) dark Cinnamon on Gold/Honey/Ivory |
| Ebony Leopard | (American Lynx) |
| Gold | (Australian Mist) |
| Gold | (California Spangled) |
| Golden Leopard | (American Lynx) |
| Golden Spotted | (Ocicat) bright Cinnamon on Ivory |
| King Spangled | (California Spangled) pattern like King Cheetah |
| Leopard | (Bengal) black spots/rosettes on orange/tawny background (a form of Brown Tabby) |
| Mink | (Bengal) black spots/rosettes on mahogany |
| Peach | (Australian Mist) a misty pink base with darker markings |
| Pewter Spotted | (Egyptian Mau) |
| Sienna Spotted | (Ocicat) Beige/Ecru on Ivory background |
| Smoke Spotted | (Egyptian Mau) |
| Snow Leopard | (American Lynx) |
| Snow Leopard | (California Spangled), the 'dilution phase'. |
| Snow | (Bengal) beige spots, black leg/tail stripes on pale Ivory (effect of Siamese/Burmese ancestry); results in Snow Leopard, Snow Marble. |
| Sorrel | (Bengal) chestnut-brown on orange/tawny |
| Tawny Spotted | (Ocicat) Black/Seal on Buff/Ruddy |
| Tawny | (American Lynx) |
BROKEN COLOURS - TORTOISESHELLS,
BICOLOURS & TRICOLOURS
BICOLOURS & TRICOLOURS
| 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 (tortie with intermingled colours). 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. |
CHINCHILLA (SHELL), TIPPED (SHORTHAIR TIPPED),
SHADED, AND SMOKE COLOUR GROUP
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: |
| Red Chinchilla = Shell Cameo Red Shaded (Silver) = Shaded Cameo Red Silver Tabby = Cameo Tabby Red Smoke = Smoke Cameo Red Silver Tortoiseshell/Tortie Tabby |
| Cream Chinchilla = Shell Cream Cameo Cream Shaded (Silver) = Shaded Cream Cameo Cream Silver Tabby = Cream Cameo Tabby Cream Smoke = Smoke Cream Cameo Cream Silver Tortoiseshell/Tortie Tabby |
| Blue Cream Chinchilla = Shell Dilute Tortoiseshell Blue Cream Shaded = Shaded Dilute Tortoiseshell Blue Cream Smoke = Smoke Dilute Tortoiseshell |
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 | |
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. |
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: | |
| Abyssinian Point | points are ticked (i.e. agouti) |
| Apricot Point | Pinkish brown points |
| Bicolour Point | Colour point with white markings on the coloured areas (present, but less apparent, on the body) e.g. white paws. |
| 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 |
| Lynx/Tabby Point | points have tabby markings |
| Pastel Point | chinchilla/shaded silver tipped points (pale colour on silvery background) (Tipped Siamese) |
| Red (Flame) Point | creamy white body, deep orange to red points |
| Seal Point | cream/pale fawn body, deep seal brown points |
| Shadow/Smoke Points | shaded points, shadowy tabby markings (darker version of chinchilla) |
| Snow Tiger | alternate term for Lynx/Tabby Points |
| Solid Point | points are of solid colour e.g. seal (dark brown), blue (grey) |
| Tortie Point | points have tortoiseshell (multicolour) markings |
| 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: | |
| Blue Tabby Point/Blue Lynx Point | bluish white body, points deep blue on pale blue. |
| Caramel Tabby Point/Caramel Lynx Point | - |
| Chocolate Tabby Point/Chocolate Lynx Point | ivory body, points warm milk chocolate on paler background |
| Cinnamon Tabby Point/Cinnamon Lynx Point | - |
| Cream Tabby Point/Cream Lynx Point | white body, points buff bars on pale cream. |
| 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. |
| Seal Tabby Point/Seal Lynx Point | cream/fawn body, points brown with seal brown bars. |
| 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 Tortoiseshell Point | body creamy white, points seal brown patched with red and/or cream |
| 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 | - |
| 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 | - |
| Lilac (Frost) Tabby Tortoiseshell Point/Lilac (Frost) Tortie Lynx Point | - |
| Seal Tabby Tortoiseshell Point/Seal Tortie Lynx Point | body cream/pale fawn, points brown with seal brown markings and red and/or cream markings. |
| 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 |
| Cream Silver Tabby Point | points silvery with cream markings |
| Red Silver Tabby Point | points silvery with red markings |
| Seal Silver Tabby Point | points silvery with seal barring |
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 | - |
| Fawn Mink | A "hotter version" of cream. |
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 |
| Tabby and White | any colour tabby markings |
MITTED & RAGDOLL COLOUR PATTERNS
| 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 |
EQUIVALENT NAMES TABLE
| Full Expression | Sepia (Burmese) | Mink (Tonkinese) | Pointed (Siamese) | Abyssinian/Somali | Australian Mist |
| Black/Brown (in tabbies)/Ebony | Brown/Sable/Seal Sepia | Sable/Natural Mink | Sable/Seal | Usual/Tawny/Ruddy/Brown | Brown |
| Blue | Blue/Blue Sepia | Blue | Blue | Blue | Blue |
| Chocolate/ Chestnut/Brown | Chocolate/ Champagne Sepia | Chocolate/ Champagne Mink | Chocolate | Chocolate | Chocolate |
| Lilac/Lavender/ Frost | Lilac/Platinum Sepia | Lilac/Platinum Mink | Lilac/Platinum | Lavender | Lilac |
| Cinnamon | Cinnamon/Cinnamon Sepia | Cinnamon/Honey Mink | Cinnamon | Red/Sorrel | Gold |
| Fawn/Light Lilac | Fawn/Fawn Sepia | Fawn | Fawn | Fawn/Beige/Dilute Sorrel (non sex-linked) | Peach |
| Red | Red/Red Sepia | Red | Red | Sex-linked red | Red |
| Cream | Cream/Cream Sepia | Cream | Cream | Sex-linked cream | Cream |
FUTURE COLOUR POSSIBILITIES
| 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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