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Kitty color terms you should know and understand if you are breeding or showing cats or are just a knowledgeable feline fancier.
Cat colors can be so difficult to describe. These terms and definitions will help you identify your cat’s coat colors and patterns. You might also find “Feline Characteristics” helpful in identifying your cat’s appearance.
A
- Albino – A white cat caused by lack of melanin pigmentation
B
- Blue-cream lynx point – Color points that are a mixture of blue and cream with underlying tabby markings
- Blue / Blue point – A bluish gray coat color
- Blue cream – Cat has blue and cream colors in her coat
- Bronze - Rich warm red with darker spotting and ticking
C
- Calico – A cat with patches of black, red, and white
- Cameo – A cat whose fur is white at the base and red on the outer part of the hair shaft
- Champagne – Soft beige
- Chestnut – Solid warm brown
- Chinchilla – Fur that is white at the base and darker at the tips
- Chocolate lynx point – Medium chocolate brown with an underlying tabby pattern
- Chocolate tortie point – Where the color points are medium chocolate brown with other tortoiseshell colors
- Cinnamon – Rich dark brownish red
- Cream – The dilute color of red, a pale beige
- Cream lynx point – Color points that are cream or pale red with underlying tabby markings
E
- Ebony – Black
F
- Fawn – Pale beige color
L
- Lavender – Pale, pinkish gray
- Lilac – Pale, pinkish gray
- Lilac cream point – Color points are lilac and cream
- Lilac cream lynx point – Color points are lilac and cream with an underlying tabby pattern
- Lilac lynx point – Color points are lilac with an underlying tabby pattern
- Lilac point – Color points are a pale, pinkish gray
- Lynx point – Color points have an underlying tabby pattern
P
- Piebald – Mostly white with other colors
R
- Red lynx point – Color points are red with underlying tabby pattern
- Ruddy – A dark ginger, red color
S
- Sable – Dark brown
- Seal lynx point – Color points are dark seal brown or black with underlying tabby pattern
- Seal point – Color points are dark seal brown or black
- Seal tortie lynx point – Color points are dark brown with other tortoiseshell colors and an underlying tabby pattern
- Seal tortie point – Color points are dark brown to black with other tortoiseshell colors
- Silver – Cat color that is white with black ticking
T
- Tortoiseshell – Also called a Tortie, where the hair is black, red, and white
- Tortie point – Color points are tortoiseshell
W
- White – Cat color lacking pigmentation
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