Brittligans färgschema

Colorschedule

EMS-codes
Benämning	Colors	Benämning	Color
n	black	a	blue
b	chocolate	c	lilac
d	red	e	cream
f	tortoiseshell	g	blue tortie
h	chocolate tortie	j	lilac tortie
p	fawn	o	cinnamon
q	sorrel tortie	r	fawnsköldpadd
s	silver	y	golden
w	white	t	modifier (amber/light amber)
x	disapproved color	-	-

Solid color is the original color, eg black or red and is dominant over dilute colors.

White - Some kittens are born with a smudge of black or blue hairs on top of the head. The spot disappears as the adult coat start to grow in around 9 months.

Black - Kittens are born black, but often develop rusty or coppery coats, white or silver hairs, or a lighter ruff and/or undercoat until full adult coat appears at 12-18 months.

Blue - May have tabby markings when a kitten, but usually those disappear as the adult coat develops.

Red - Kittens are usually born with tabby markings which may or may not disappear with the adult coat. There is actually no such thing as a pure red cat. All red cats are red tabby with tabby markings either very obvious (tabby) or very faint (red).

Cream - Kittens are often born with faint tabby markings which usually disappear with the adult coat at about 9 months.

Solid color or smoke? - A young non-smoke cat has a kitten coat that is often a lot lighter than the base color of the cat. The cat can look like a smoke, but because neither parent cat has a white undercoat, the kitten cannot be a smoke. The kitten coat will darken as the cat gets older.

SHADED AND SMOKE COLORS
SHADED COLORS
Shaded Cameo/Shell Cameo - Kittens born white with tipping gradually appearing.

Shaded Silver/Chinchilla Silver - Kittens born with dark markings and/or tabby markings - particularly on the tail, which disappear by 4-6 weeks. A chinchilla silver may be so light that it looks like a white cat, but because neither parent is white, the kitten cannot be a white. Green eye color on a white cat with silver parentage is a good sign that the cat is a chinchilla silver, not a white.

Shaded Tortie/Shell Tortie - The cat may look like a shaded silver or a chinchilla silver, but will have just a small patch, or even just a few hairs, of cream and/or red, or will have mottled black and cream paw pads. Those small differences will make the cat a shaded tortie or shell tortie, not a shaded silver or chinchilla silver.

SMOKE?
Smoke - Often difficult to tell from solid color kittens except that smokes sometimes have white around the eyes and a paler stomach. May take some months to tell which kittens will be smoke because the full coat color is sometimes not seen until the adult coat comes in at 2 years. Undercoat begins to show at 3 weeks, and by 6-8 weeks have a mottled look.

SMOKE OR SHADED?
1/8 of hair length colored at tip - chinchilla and shell
1/4 of hair length colored at tip - all shaded
1/2 of hair length colored at tip - all smoke

TABBY COLORS
Tabby - Markings will show even at birth. Often the darker the stripes at birth, the clearer the adult pattern will be.

Tabby or Patched Tabby? - If a cat has patches of red and/or cream or has two different colors on its nose leather and/or paw pads, the cat is probably a patched tabby (silver, blue or brown).

PARTICOLOR COLORS
Blue-Cream or Blue? - Kittens with the palest coat often develop into the best blue-cream adults. Often the kitten will look much like a pale blue in the first few weeks. Even a small patch of cream, or just a few hairs of cream, or if the paw pads are mottled blue and cream, will make the cat a blue-cream, not a blue.

Tortoiseshell or Black? - Even just a small patch of red and/or cream on the cat, or if the cat has mottled black and cream paw pads, will make the cat a tortoiseshell, not a black.

POINTED COLORS
Kittens are born creamy white with pink paw pads, noses and ears. Point color gradually develops over the first few weeks. In seal point and blue point, a blob of color first appears on the nose after 10 days, but it may be 3 months before chocolate and lilac points become apparent. Colors may not be fully developed until 1 year.

Blue Point or Lilac Point? - Check the nose leather and paw pads. A blue point has slate gray, a lilac point has lavender pink.

Seal Point or Chocolate Point? - Check the nose leather and paw pads. A chocolate point has cinnamon pink, the seal point has seal brown.

Seal Point or Tortie Point? - Check the nose leather and paw pads. If they are mottled seal brown and flesh/pink, the cat is a tortie point, not a seal point.

Blue Point or Blue cream Point? - Check the paw pads and nose leather. If the color is a mottled blue and pink, the cat is a blue cream point, not a blue point.

Flame Point or Cream Point? - These colors can be very close. There are hot creams and light reds. If both parent cats are definitely dilutes (blue, cream or blue cream), the offspring cannot be a flame point.

Diluted solid color. Blue is a dilution of black and cream is a dilution of red. Dilution is recessive in relation to solid color. In order that the offspring will become diluted required that both parents are themselves diluted, or carry the gen..

White color is dominant over all other colors.
White fur is caused by a dominant gene that completely conceal the cat's color is really black, tortoiseshell / white, brown tabby or otherwise. The gene for white fur is suspected to be lethal in a double set. It is not defined how the underlying color is hidden. A theory is that a film around the pigment granules crackles, so the light is reflected as white. The white fur or white spots would lack pigment is contradicted by the fact that the pigment dissolved hair tends to be translucent and pale yellow horn.

Agouti is dominant over all other colors except white. For example, a chinchilla mated with a black always gives agouti kittens.

Genotype is how the cat is genetically complex.

Phenotype is how the cat looks like. The cat may be genetically such as a chinchilla, but look like a Shaded silver, or vice versa.

Dominant gene, eg, white color. One of the parents must have some white fur to be able to pass it on to the kittens. Two black cats, even if their parents were white, can never get white kittens.

Recessive gene, such as blue, do not appear in any of the parents but both must be carriers. for dilution, in other words, can two black cats have both black and blue kittens.

Pattern
01	Van (white spotted)
02	Harlequin (white spotted)
03	Bicolor (white spotted)
04	Mitted (white spotted)
05	Snowshoe (white spotted)
09	White - an indefinite quantity
11	Shaded
12	Shell (tipped) (only together with 09 and/or 31-33)
22	Classic tabby
23	Mackerel tabby
24	Spotted
25	Ticking (ABY/SOM-patterned)
31	Burmese pointed
32	Tonkinese
33	Siamese/pointed