Eye Color

Cats may have any of the following eye colors, regardless of their genotype:

• They can be vary in vibrancy, from saturated, colorful bright eyes to fully desaturated gray tones. 

• Eyes should not be dark enough they resemble black. The brown example shown above shows about as dark as eyes can be without being affected by the topaz mutation. 

• While it's fine to add shading to the eyes: 

  • • orange, yellow and amber eyes should not be shaded to appear red

    • blue eyes should be shaded to appear purple

    • No eye color should be shaded to appear black

• Blue eyes should not lean into purple or indigo.

• Heterochromia can have any combination of eye colors from the options above. Sectoral heterochromia, central heterochromia and complete heterochromia are acceptable. Heterochromia can be added freely to any design regardless of their genes. Heterochromia does NOT require blue eyes. 

• For all eye colors, the pupil should be darker than the eye color or completely black. Pupils may not be red without the presence of albinism or topaz. 

• Blue eyes can be added to a design without the need for white spotting or other dilution genes.

• Maximum darkness for all colors is 40 (CSP, PS, SAI2) / 103 (SAI)

Special Eye Colors

The following genes can affect a cat's eye color.

Albino:

Whenever a cat expresses albinism, they always have red pupils and any of the following eye colors.

Cats with albinism always have light colored eyes. Eyes should not be darker than 80v.

Deep / Intense / Blood red is not allowed

Topaz:

Whenever a cat has the topaz mutation, they may have any of the topaz eyes.

Topaz eyes may not have sectoral or partial heterochromia, only complete heterochromia. When using complete heterochromia with a naturally occurring eye color, the other eye color should correspond to the geno beneath the topaz.