Coat color & PatternsCOLORwhite
Pure white, not cream, no markings, any eye color.
Cream/old ivory/buff/etc
Not quiet ginger, can range from light orange to almost white.
Black
Solid black with any eye color.
If has white its particolor.
Ginger/Orange/Red
Can range from light ginger to dark red.
Point
-blue point
Can be seal, blue, ginger point. The cat is white to cream with color on their face, paws and tail.
Blue/grey/gray/silver
Can be silver to almost black.
Seal/brown
Brown, not tabby, pure brown
PATTERNMackerel
[thi cat has curly hair but try to see past that]
Many confuse this with tabby but it is a coat pattern with narrow stripes extending down the spine and flanks
Solid
-cream
Cats that are one color and do not have any stripes.
Tabby
Cats with stripes - called tabby markings. The tabby markings have four different patterns.
[Mackerel, classic tabby
Tortoiseshell
The primary color on most torties is black. The amount of red can vary from just a few toes to lots of obvious red. It is rare but some torties have more red than black. They used to be called "reverse torties".
Tortoiseshell Tabby
Many people find the difference between torties and torbies rather confusing. Even on a solid color cat, you can often see stripes on reds and creams. The only way to be sure if you have a tortie or torbie is to ignore any stripes showing in the red or cream areas - just look to see if the black color is solid or has stripes!
Calico
Mush like tortie, exp with white!
Particolor
[Tabby and white, black and white etc]Any of the above with white added. The term particolor means any cat with white.
Tuxedo
Everyone knows this! A somehting and white cat that looks like they are wearing a suit!
Classic Tabby
Often referred to as a swirled or bulls-eye pattern. The stripes are much wider than a mackerel tabby's stripes with a circular pattern on the sides. These tabbies will often have broad stripes running down the middle of their back.
Spotted Tabby
Instead of lines that create a pattern, spotted tabbies have small individual spots.
Ticked Tabby
Instead of a pattern on the body, every individual hair is ticked - has bands of color on it. In purebred cats, some breeds are allowed to have stripes (called bars) on their legs and face. Other breeds are required to be totally free of any barring.
Instead of lines that create a pattern, spotted tabbies have small individual spots.
