Snowline [Sl]

Marking Type: Normal Marking

Rarity: Uncommon

Snowline is a natural symmetrical marking that creates lighter areas of color on the Rukaan's body that mimic the markings found on caribou.

Marking Range and Extent

Snowline creates a lighter collar around the neck of the animal and a midline marking that stripes down the animal's side. At minimum it will display as a lightened throat and armpit, and at maximum can cover the entire neck and extend from the ribs to fade along the rump in a thick band. Snowline should never touch the animal's belly or legs and should never touch the top of the animal's back.

Minimum Range (Throat) and Extent (Side Stripe)

Illustration above shows minimum range of snowline on the throat and the minimum extent on the side. It must at least appear on the throat and behind the elbow.

As long as the side stripe appears behind the shoulder/elbow it can be located somewhat higher or lower as long as it falls within the maximum range. It must be at least as wide and long as the side stripe pictured here.

Maximum Range

Shown above is the maximum range and maximum extent for the marking. Marking can cover this entire range.

Minimum Range on Royal

Maximum Range on Royal

Typical Expressions of Snowline

R-0378 RevnaSlightly Hard and Gradient Edges

R-0325 LocketSlightly Soft Edges

Marking Edges

Snowline can be hard edged, slightly soft edged and fade along a gradient. It does not have to be equally strong over the entire marking and can fade in places.

Marking Color

Snowline normally becomes a pale cream or white color, and will always be lighter than what it sits over. It can be a lighter version of the base coat, but cannot be more saturated than the base coat. The marking can fade in places but should be soft throughout.

Please note that layer effects (such as screen, soft light, overlay, etc) in image editing software may change the saturation or color of your markings. If you are using non-standard layers, please check your saturation and hue before submitting to make sure they are consistent with the design guides.

R-0370 AavaWhite snowline

R-0071 InaDark snowline

R-0392 JuncoCreamy snowline

Duneyrr S-004Creamy snowline on a saturated base

Skin/Eye Color Effects

This marking has no effect on skin color. Use a normal, undiluted flesh color.

Eye color is not affected by this gene.

Element Effects

Effect on Metal and Gemstone elements: None

Effect on Ancient element: None

Coat Type Effects

Snowline can follow the direction of the fur on long-haired coat types.

R-0243 GalarrSnowline on Cloaked Coat extending into the mane and beard

Interactions With Other Genes

R-0036 Reinhildr

Snowline with Blue

Blue can make snowline blue.

R-0561 Lemon Seed

Snowline with Champagne and Roan

Snowline can blend into edges of roan. Champagne can give snowline a creamy golden color.

R-0279 Sammal

Snowline with Olive and Pangare

Snowline can blend into edges of pangare. Olive can give snowline a green color.

R-0515 Miasma

Snowline with Skunk

Snowline can interact with Skunk to create abnormal broad, soft horizontal stripes.

Color Modifiers

- Blue can give snowline a blue color
- Wine can give snowline a lilac purple color
- Champagne can give snowline a golden-cream color
- Olive can give snowline a mossy green color
- Grey will affect all lightening and darkening markings and desaturate/lighten them to the same extent that it desaturates/lightens the base coat. Lightening markings can be obscured by grey if the grey is white or nearly white. They do not have to be visible on very pale grey coats.
- Tint can change the color of this marking to a color from any color palette in the species

White Markings go over this marking. All other markings can go over or under.

Soft-edged light markings can blend together. Snowline will often blend together with other soft-edged lightening genes such as Frosting, Roan, Skunk or Pangare.

Snowline can interact with Skunk to form broad soft horizontal stripes somewhere between skunk and snowline in expression. The expression may differ depending on whether the skunk stripes are paler or darker than the base coat.