Coats

Fur Length

Short fur (LL)

Short-haired cats don’t have any long tufts of fur on their bodies.

Short fur, carries long (Ll)

Same as short fur, except they carry the long hair gene.

Long fur (ll)

Your cat has long fur. Length can somewhat vary.

Glitter

Normal coat, carries glittered coat (Glgl)

Your cat has a normal coat, but carries glittering fur.

Glittered coat (glgl)

Your cat has glittering fur, like some Bengals and Egyptian Maus. Their fur refracts light, due to air pockets in the core of each hair shaft. This gives them a glittering appearance. The color is generally a lighter, brighter color of their coat color. For example, black tabbies have golden glitter, charcoals have silver glitter, and silver or pointed cats have crystal-white glitter.

Satin-Rexing

Normal coat, carries satin-rexed coat (Sasa)

Your cat has a normal coat, but carries satin-rexing. Their fur will be a bit shinier and softer than usual.

Satin-rexed coat (sasa)

Your cat has curly fur with a satin shimmer, similar to Tennessee Rex fur. Their fur is more tightly curled the shorter it gets, loosening up into soft curls or waves where it gets longer. All hairs reflect light, due to a coating on the hair shaft that is similar to oyster shell. This gives them a satin sheen which is most noticeable on lighter-colored or red cats. They also will have curled whiskers.

Cornish Rex

Normal coat, carries Cornish Rex coat (Rr)

Your cat has a normal coat, but carries a wavy coat similar to Cornish Rex fur.

Cornish Rex coat (rr)

Your cat has wavy fur that’s similar to Cornish Rex fur. Cats have three layers to their coat -- the guard, awn, and down layers. This fur mutation causes a lack of guard hairs, leaving only the awn and down layers which are very short, soft and fine. The hairs form a uniform wave pattern across the coat. Their whiskers are also often short and either crimped or curled.

Rex and Hairless

Normal coat, carries Devon Rex coat (Rere)

Your cat has a normal coat, but carries wavy-curly fur similar to Devon Rex fur.

Normal coat, carries hairless (Rehr)

Your cat has a normal coat, but carries the hairless gene.

Selkirk Rex coat (SReRe)

Your cat has curly fur similar to Selkirk Rex fur. They have a full coat with all three layers of hair (guard, awn, and down) intact. All hairs have a light, loose curl, and form ringlets across the coat. Carries non-Selkirk Rex gene.

Selkirk Rex coat (SReSRe)

Your cat has curly fur similar to Selkirk Rex fur. They have a full coat with all three layers of hair (guard, awn, and down) intact. All hairs have a light, loose curl, and form ringlets across the coat. As the homozygous variant, these cats will have more dense, tight curls than cats that are heterozygous for the gene.

Selkirk Rex coat (SRere)

Your cat has curly fur similar to Selkirk Rex fur. They have a full coat with all three layers of hair (guard, awn, and down) intact. All hairs have a light, loose curl, and form ringlets across the coat. Carries Devon Rex.

Selkirk Rex coat (SRehr)

Your cat has curly fur similar to Selkirk Rex fur. They have a full coat with all three layers of hair (guard, awn, and down) intact. All hairs have a light, loose curl, and form ringlets across the coat. Carries hairless.

Devon Rex coat (rere)

Your cat has wavy-curly fur similar to Devon Rex fur. This fur mutation causes the guard hairs (outermost layer) of a cat's coat to be extremely short; their fur is wavy with a slight curl. Their whiskers are also often short and either crimped or curled.

Fur-pointed (hrre)

Your cat is fur-pointed. They have soft, rippled, dense fur on their face, ears, legs and tail, and sparse fur across the rest of the body with a nearly-hairless neck, chest and belly.

Hairless (hrhr)

Your cat has no fur. Hairless cats may have a bit of "peach fuzz" but should otherwise be hairless.

LaPerm

LaPerm coat (Lplp)

Your cat has curly fur similar to LaPerm fur. Their fur is soft with a textured feel, and is made of light, springy curls. They also will have long, curled whiskers. Carries non-LaPerm gene.

LaPerm coat (LpLp)

Your cat has curly fur similar to LaPerm fur. Their fur is soft with a textured feel, and is made of light, springy curls. They also will have long, curled whiskers.

Wirehair

Wirehair coat (Whwh)

Your cat has crimped fur similar to Wirehair fur. They also will have curled whiskers. Carries non-Wirehair gene.

Wirehair coat (WhWh)

Your cat has crimped fur similar to Wirehair fur. They also will have curled whiskers.

Sparse Fur

Normal coat, carries sparse fur gene (Spfspf)

Your cat has a normal coat, but carries the sparse fur gene.

Sparse fur (spfspf)

Your cat has sparse fur similar to Lykoi fur. They lack any undercoat (down hairs), and have shortened and thinner guard hairs than normal. Their hair gets sparser towards the extremities, and they have no hair at all on much of their face.

Base Colors

Eumelanin (Black-based Color)

Black fur (BB)

Your cat’s fur color is black.

Black, carries chocolate (Bb)

Your cat’s fur color is black. They carry the chocolate gene.

Black, carries cinnamon (Bbl)

Your cat’s fur color is black. They carry the cinnamon gene.

Chocolate (bb)

Your cat’s fur color is chocolate. This is a dark brown color.

Chocolate (bbl)

Your cat’s fur color is chocolate. They carry the cinnamon gene.

Cinnamon (blbl)

Your cat’s fur color is cinnamon. This is a saturated brown color.

Pheomelanin (Red-based Color)

Red (male) (XOY)

Your cat is male and red. Red always shows over black-based colors.

Red (female) (XOXO)

Your cat is female and red. Red always shows over black-based colors.

Tortoiseshell (XOXo)

Your cat is a tortoiseshell.

Dilution

Dense, carries dilute (Dd)

Your cat is dense (meaning not dilute), but they carry the gene.

Dilute (dd)

Your cat is dilute. The pelt will be a lighter version of their base color.

Turns black into blue

Turns red into cream

Turns chocolate into lilac

Turns cinnamon into fawn

Dilute Modifier

Dilute modifier (Dmdm)

Your cat’s fur color is caramelized and they carry the non-dilute modifier gene. Makes the cat's fur warmer in hue. Will only visibly express this gene if they are also dilute.
Turns blue into caramel

Turns cream into apricot

Turns lilac into taupe

Turns fawn into fawn caramel

Dilute modifier (DmDm)

Your cat’s fur color is caramelized. Makes the cat's fur warmer in hue. Will only visibly express this gene if they are also dilute.

Turns blue into caramel

Turns cream into apricot

Turns lilac into taupe

Turns fawn into fawn caramel

Coats

Agouti

​Solid (aa)

Your cat is solid, meaning they will not display a tabby pattern.

Agouti (Aa)

Your cat is a tabby, meaning they will display striped pattern. Carries the solid gene.

Agouti (AA)

Your cat is a tabby, meaning they will display a striped pattern.

Agouti (ApbA)

Your cat is a tabby, meaning they will display a striped pattern. Carries the charcoal gene.

Charcoal agouti (Apba)

Your cat is a charcoal tabby. They have a lower contrast between their ground color and self color than a standard tabby, especially around their face and back. They will have a notable "zorro" mask around the eyes and bridge of the nose of their self color, and may appear to have thicker markings overall. They will have a less reddish, brownish, or creamy ground color than a standard tabby, so they may appear somewhat desaturated by comparison. Charcoal will not act on red-based cats.

Agouti (ApbApb)

Your cat is a tabby, meaning they will display a striped pattern. Carries the charcoal gene. ApbApb cats may have a pattern that overall has more self color, or a faint charcoal mask.

Bengal Modifier

Exotic Tabby (Bmbm)

Carries unmodified and acts as a modifier to various tabby patterns, giving them a hollowed-out look. Mackerel tabbies are turned to braided tabbies, classic to marbled, broken mackerel to broken braided, spotted to rosetted, and ticked to servaline.

Exotic Tabby (BmBm)

Acts as a modifier to various tabby patterns, giving them a hollowed-out look. 

Mackerel tabbies are turned to braided tabbies, classic to marbled, broken mackerel to broken braided, spotted to rosetted, and ticked to servaline.

Mackerel

Mackerel tabby (McMc)

Your cat is a mackerel tabby. On their sides, they have tabby stripes running down.

Mackerel tabby (Mcmc)

Your cat is a mackerel tabby and carries the classic tabby gene. On their sides, they have tabby stripes running down.

Classic tabby (mcmc)

Your cat is a classic tabby. On their sides, they have a "bullseye" or swirl tabby pattern.

Spotted

Broken tabby (Spsp)

Your cat is a broken tabby and carries the non-spotted gene. Broken tabbies will display the mackerel pattern, but broken up, almost like bits of the pattern have been erased. The spotted gene will only be visibly displayed on mackerel tabbies; classic tabbies will be unaffected.

Spotted tabby (SpSp)

Your cat is a spotted tabby. On their sides, they have solid spots. The spotted gene will only be visibly displayed on mackerel tabbies; classic tabbies will be unaffected.

Ticked

Ticked tabby (Tata)

Your cat is a ticked tabby and carries the non-ticked gene. They have a ticked pattern on their sides, with stripes on their legs, tails, and faces. Occasionally, they may have a faint underlying tabby pattern visible, called breakthrough. Ticked will mask any other tabby pattern.

Ticked tabby (TaTa)

Your cat is a ticked tabby. They have a ticked pattern on their sides, with stripes on their legs, tails, and faces. High rufousing and/or unpatterned ticked tabbies may occur depending on inheritance from parents (polygenes). Ticked will mask any other tabby pattern.

Patterns and Modifiers

Inhibitor

Silver (Ii)

Your cat will be a silver tabby, shaded or tipped if they are a tabby, and will be a smoke if they’re a solid. They carry the non-silver gene.

Smokes will display lighter, desaturated undersides, affecting the chest and belly. It may also affect parts of the face, sides, legs and tail, or create a "ghost tabby" patterning.

Silver tabbies will look like regular tabbies, and have full color on the stripes, but with the undercoat lightened and desaturated. Silver shaded and shell cats have wideband in addition to silver; they may also have ticked tabby but this is not required.

Silver (II)

Your cat will be a silver tabby, shaded or shell if they are a tabby, and will be a smoke if they’re a solid.

Wideband and Sunshine

Carrying Wideband (Wbwb)

Your cat carries the wideband gene, but doesn’t express it.

Wideband (wbwb)

Your cat expresses the wideband gene. If the cat is a tabby, they will most likely be a golden tabby. Golden tabbies will have a dark gold/yellowy undercoat, with darker stripes.

Widebanding will not act on solid cats or on red/cream/apricot cats.

Wideband will turn silver tabby into silver shaded.

Partial Extreme Wideband (wbwb+)

Your cat expresses the wideband gene. If the cat is a tabby, they will most likely be a golden shaded. Golden shadeds will have a golden undercoat, with faded markings and pale undersides. The base color will mostly show on the tail, back, and head.

Widebanding will not act on solid cats or on red/cream/apricot cats.

Partial extreme wideband will turn silver tabby into silver shaded or silver shell.

Extreme Wideband (wb+wb+)

Your cat expresses the extreme wideband gene. If the cat is a tabby, they will most likely be a golden shell. Golden shells are a bright gold/orange color, with the undersides of the coat being very pale, almost white. Markings will be extremely faded, with the base color only showing through on the tail-tip.

Widebanding will not act on solid cats or on red/cream/apricot cats.

Extreme wideband will turn silver tabby into silver shell.

Carrying Sunshine (WbwbSIB)

Your cat carries the sunshine gene, but doesn’t express it.

Sunshine (wbSIBwbSIB)

Your cat expresses the sunshine gene, giving them an almost amber look. Cats will have a orange/reddish coat, with the base color showing through on the tail-tip and face, as well as possibly the legs. Cats who are heterozygous for agouti (Aa) will be slightly darker, with the base color also showing through on the back. When present with the silver gene, it makes your cat bimetallic. Bimetallic cats will have a pale tabby coat, with cream-colored undersides. Sunshine will not act on solid cats or on red/cream/apricot cats.

Extreme Sunshine (wbeSIBwbeSIB)

Your cat expresses the extreme sunshine gene. These cats will look very similar to regular sunshines, with a brighter coat and less of the base color showing through. Sunshine will not act on solid cats or on red/cream/apricot cats. When present with the silver gene, it makes your cat bimetallic.

Extension

Non-amber, carries amber (Ee)

Your cat carries the amber gene.

Amber (ee)

Your cat is amber. Changes black-based cats to appear amber. Cats with the agouti gene (AA or Aa) will look similar to red tabbies, with the base color showing through on the tail-tip, as well as possibly on the ears, face and tail. Cats without the agouti gene (aa) will have a golden undercoat, with stripes remaining as the base color, and have that same color on the nose bridge. Amber will not visibly express on red-based cats.

Non-russet, carries russet (Eer)

Your cat carries the russet gene.

Russet (erer)

Your cat is russet. Changes black-based cats to have a yellowy/golden-brown color, like that of russet potatoes. Russet will cause solid (aa) cats to appear as tabbies. Russet will not visibly express on red-based cats.

Amber-russet (eer)

Your cat is amber-russet.

Non-carnelian, carries carnelian (Eec)

Your cat carries the carnelian gene. Carriers also show a change of color in their coat, though not to carnelian’s extent.

Carnelian (ecec)

Your cat is carnelian. Changes black-based tabbies to have a bright red tabby coat, with light undersides and a dark tail-tip. Non-agouti carnelians (aa) will have a dark orange tabby coat, with low contrast. Silver carnelians will be similar to bimetallic cats, having a pale coat with a creamy color on the undersides and back. Gold carnelians will have a bright red tabby coat with the base color showing through completely on the face, tail and legs. Carnelian will not visibly express on red-based cats.

Amber-carnelian (eec)

Your cat is amber-carnelian.

Russet-carnelian (erec)

Your cat is russet-carnelian.

Color Restriction

Not pointed, carries colorpoint (Ccs)

Your cat carries the colorpoint gene.

Not pointed, carries sepia colorpoint (Ccb)

Your cat carries the sepia colorpoint gene.

Not pointed, carries mocha colorpoint (Ccm)

Your cat carries the mocha colorpoint gene.

Colorpoint (cscs)

Your cat is a colorpoint. They will be white in coloration, with regular coloring showing through on the ears, face, legs and tail. They may also have some pale coloration showing through on a "saddle" on the back.

Colorpoint carrying albino (csca or csc)

Your cat is a colorpoint, and carries albino. They will be white in coloration, with regular coloration showing through on the ears, face, legs and tail. They may also have some pale coloration showing through on a "saddle" on the back.

Mink colorpoint (cscb)

Your cat is a mink colorpoint. They will have lightened color, with regular coloration showing through on the ears, face, legs and tail. They may also have some coloration showing through on a "saddle" on the back. The contrast between the lightened and regular color will be medium to high.

Sepia colorpoint (cbcb)

Your cat is a sepia colorpoint. They will have a slightly lightened color, with regular coloration showing through on the ears, face, legs and tail, as well as possibly on a "saddle" on the back. The contrast between the lightened and regular color will be very low.

Sepia colorpoint carrying albino (cbca or cbc)

Your cat is a sepia colorpoint and carries albino. They will have a slightly lightened color, with regular coloration showing through on the ears, face, legs and tail, as well as possibly on a "saddle" on the back. The contrast between the lightened and regular color will be very low.

Mocha colorpoint (cmcm)

Your cat is a mocha colorpoint. They will be a warm, saturated, semi-pale brown color, with darker coloration showing through on the ears, face, legs and tail, as well as a possibly on a "saddle" on the back.

Burmocha colorpoint (cbcm)

Your cat is a burmocha colorpoint. They will look like a darker version of a mocha point.

Siamocha colorpoint (cscm)

Your cat is a siamocha colorpoint. They will be white in coloration, with a pale, warm brown coloration showing through on the ears, face, paws and tail.

Mocha colorpoint carrying albino (cmca or cmc)

Your cat is a mocha colorpoint carrying albino. They will be a warm, saturated, semi-pale brown color, with darker coloration showing through on the ears, face, legs and tail, as well as a possibly on a "saddle" on the back.

Not albino, carries blue-eyed albino (Cca)

Your cat carries the blue-eyed albino gene.

Not albino, carries pink-eyed albino (Cc)

Your cat carries the pink-eyed albino gene.

Blue-eyed albino (caca)

Your cat has a complete lack of pigment, and blue eyes.

Lavender-eyed albino (cac)

Your cat has a complete lack of pigment, and lavender eyes.

Pink-eyed albino (cc)

Your cat has a complete lack of pigment, and pink eyes.

Karpati

Karpati carrying non-karpati (Kk)

Your cat has a pattern that makes their ears, face, legs, belly, tail, and face pale in varying degrees. Karpatis can have pale coloration on very few areas of the body or have the pale coloration cover them almost entirely, as long as the ears have that pale coloration. Karpati is a dominant gene somewhat similar to colorpoint in that it’s temperature sensitive.

Karpati (KK)

Your cat has a pattern that makes their ears, face, legs, belly, tail, and face pale in varying degrees. Karpatis can have pale coloration on very few areas of the body or have the pale coloration cover them almost entirely, as long as the ears have that pale coloration. Karpati is a dominant gene somewhat similar to colorpoint in that it’s temperature sensitive.

White

Non-white carrying white gloving (wwg)

Your cat has no white spotting, but carries the gloving gene.

Non-white carrying salmiak (wwsal)

Your cat has no white spotting, but carries the salmiak gene.

Non-white carrying gloving and salmiak (wgwsal)

Your cat has no white spotting, but carries the gloving and salmiak genes.

Low white spotting (wsw)

Your cat has white spotting covering 0-50% of the body. White spotting will cover all other markings. Cats with low white must have at least a bit of visible white. A tuxedo pattern would be an example of low white.

Low white spotting (wswg)

Your cat has white spotting covering 0-50% of the body, and carries the gloving gene.

Low white spotting (wswsal)

Your cat has white spotting covering 0-50% of the body, and carries the salmiak gene.

White gloving (wgwg)

Your cat has mitted white paws. On the back paws, the white may also go up to the hocks. Note that mitted cats will have white on ONLY these areas, and will lack it on any other area of the body.

Salmiak (wsalwsal)

Your cat has the salmiak white pattern. They will have a white blaze, and usually have a patch of self color at the nose. They also will have a white neck and chest, a white tail-tip, and uneven, patchy white markings on the legs. They may have a white belly. Their back will have a roan white pattern, with less roaning around the shoulders. They may have prominent white dapples in the roan.

High white spotting (wsws)

Your cat has white spotting covering 50-100% of the body. White spotting will cover all other markings. A van pattern would be an example of high white.

Dominant white (Wdw)

Your cat is dominant white. They are completely white, and no markings will be shown on their coat. Carries non-white.

Dominant white (Wdws or Wdwg or Wdwsal)

Your cat is dominant white. They are completely white, and no markings will be shown on their coat. Carries white spotting, white gloving, or salmiak respectively.

Dominant white (WdWd)

Your cat is dominant white. They are completely white, and no markings will be shown on their coat.

Mutations

Bobtail

Shortened tail (Jbjb)

Your cat has a kinked, shortened tail.

Bobtail (jbjb)

Your cat has a bobtail.

Manx

Manx tail (Mm)

Your cat has a short tail or no tail.

Ringtail

Non-ringtail, carries ringtail (Rtrt)

Your cat carries the ringtail mutation.

Ringtail (rtrt)

Your cat has a curled tail.

Folded Ears

Folded ears (Sfsf)

Your cat has folded ears.

Curled Ears

Curled ears (Acac)

Your cat has curled ears and carries the non-curled ears gene.

Curled ears (AcAc)

Your cat has curled ears.

Polydactyl

Polydactyl (Pdpd)

Your cat can have extra toes and carries the non-extra toe gene.

Polydactyl (PdPd)

Your cat likely has extra toes.

Syndactyly

Syndactyly carrying non-syndactyly (Snsn)

Your cat’s toes have fused together. Carries non-syndactyly.

Syndactyly (SnSn)

Your cat’s toes have fused together.

Munchkin

Munchkin (Mkmk)

Your cat has short legs.

Dominant Blue Eye

Celestial (DBEcdbe)

Your cat has blue eyes from the celestial dominant blue eyes gene. One or both of your cat's eyes may be fully or partially blue. Optionally, they may have a bit of white on the muzzle, or some white toes. Celestial can also be "latent", where it does not affect the cat despite being a dominant gene.