Black
The ideal black — with a dense, coal-black coat, sound (the same color with no variation) from the roots to the tip of the hair — is almost impossible to achieve. The standard calls for the coat to be free from any tinge of rust at the tips, and without a smoke undercoat. But in actual practice, no black cat with any coat length can be without variation from root to tip. Sunlight damages the perfect black. Kittens are particularly prone to a smoky look
Seal Point
Seal Point: Deep seal-brown points should provide clear contrast with the pale fawn body color. The stomach and chest may be even lighter in color than the back.Since this pattern is recessive to full color, when the Himalayans are bred to Persians of other colors, many cats are created that carry the potential to produce pointed cats. Cats such as these are called CPCs (for color point carriers).
Cream Tabby
Cream Tabby: Markings are buff on a pale cream. This is a beautiful, delicate color that’s almost impossible to accomplish well in a longhaired cat.
Black Bicolor
The bicolored cat should have, as a minimum, white on the feet, legs, undersides, chest and muzzle. White spotting is never predictable, so the amount of white can vary greatly. Sometimes the white chest will extend back over the shoulders in a full collar.
Cream Point
Cream Point: The dilute of red, the points of this cat should be buff cream on a creamy white body. They will also be very late to develop.
Blue Point
Blue Point: Blue points should be in high contrast to the bluish white body which shades to white on the stomach. Flame (Red) Point: This color is very late to mature. The body is creamy white. Mature point color should be deep orange to deep red. Often, cats are several years old before the color is fully in.
Silver Tabby
Silver Tabby: Here the influence of another gene system changes the ground color of the brown tabby to a pale, clear silver. The markings remain black. Normally a dramatic combination, in the longhaired cat it’s usually softened and seldom clearly defined. Any brown or cream tinge is considered a fault. All Persians carrying the silver gene may have green or hazel eye color, as well as copper.
Blue and Silver Patched Tabbies
Silver Patched Tabby and Blue Silver Patched Tabby: These are identical to the other patched tabbies with the exception of the silvered ground color and white undercoat. Patched tabbies are all females except in rare instances where a genetic anomaly occurs.
Red
Red color can be a vibrant mahogany or any one of several shades of orange all the way down to a pale ginger. For some reason, this color almost always fails to conceal the tabby lines hidden in each cat’s genetic makeup.“The longer coat also tends to blur any marks. These cats are usually not faulted for tabby marks on the face and legs, although an evenly colored cat is the ideal. When these cats are kittens, it’s often difficult to determine whether if it will be a Solid or a Tabby.
Calico
Calico: Probably the most popular of all cat colors, this is the combination of the tortoiseshell and white. In some associations a distinction is still made between a tortoiseshell with white (just a white chest or feet) and a calico, which at least has white on the feet, legs, undersides, chest and muzzle. This tri-colored cat is black, red and white.
Brown Tabby
Brown Tabby: The ground color should be a coppery brown marked with black lines. Because of the high contrast between the two colors, the pattern is usually clear. These cats are affectionately nicknamed “brownies.”
Blue Cream
Blue-cream: This is the genetically dilute version of the black and red tortoiseshell. As with the solid versions, each color should be pale and even. Because the tabby pattern shows less on the cream than the red, there is little variation in this part of the color. Blue should predominate.
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Black Smoke
The smoke colors show the fullest expression of tipping. The coat appears at first glance to be that of a normal, fully colored cat. When parted, the color extends as much as halfway down the hair shaft, giving way at that point to pure white. This white undercoat is clearly apparent when the cat is in motion and shows in the longer frill around the neck.
Bi Colors
The bicolored cat should have, as a minimum, white on the feet, legs, undersides, chest and muzzle. White spotting is never predictable, so the amount of white can vary greatly. Sometimes the white chest will extend back over the shoulders in a full collar.
Tortoiseshell Smoke and Blue-Cream Smoke:
Identifying a true Smoke can sometimes be difficult because the white undercoat can almost disappear when the cat is out of coat. Only with a full undercoat will it be dramatic; at other times the coat only appears to get lighter toward the skin.
Tortie and Blue Cream Points
Tortie Point, Blue-Cream Point, Chocolate-Tortie Point and Lilac-Cream Point: The body color of these cats should correspond to the most prominent color of the parti-color points, with only subtle shading allowed. The points must show unbrindled patches of both colors.
Lynx Pointed
Tabby pointed cats. Once again, the body color should correspond to the basic color in the points. The points themselves should have clearly defined markings, including the tabby “M” on the forehead and barring on the legs and tail. The overriding influence of the tabby pattern makes it particularly difficult to produce clear body color. They can come in all the tabby colorc.
Tortoiseshell
Tortoiseshell: Depending upon the association, a tortoiseshell is a black cat with patches of red or intermingled areas of red. All agree that black should predominate. The red areas may contain several different shades of red.In adults, the red can appear in clearly defined areas or generally intermingled with the black. Some associations stress a red or cream blaze on the face.
