Tabby Cat Color Patterns

Tabbies can be found in either mackerel classical ticked or spotted and many cats also have partial tabby markings along with white patches or sometimes other colours too.

Tabby cat color patterns. The classic tabby has stripes on their face and head with swirls of darker color on a lighter base. A dark line leading from the outer corner of each eye at a downwards angle to below each ear and a darker m shaped pattern on their foreheads. The color of the tip of the tail determines the actual color of the tabby cat. Tabby m all tabbies have distinctive m on forehead.

Black stripes ranging from coal black to brownish on a background of brown to gray. Tabby in the. Green eyed mackerel tabby looking thoughtful. The tabby pattern occurs in twelve colours which are black based or red based and their dilutes and dilute modifiers which change the shape of the melanin granules or make them clump together.

The classic tabby has bold swirling patterns along his sides much like a marble cake. Visible in ticked tabby cats but hard to discern in shaded silver golden and tipped cats black eyeliner. The correct term is a mackerel tabby although this pattern is also called tiger tabby or striped tabby. As mentioned many breeds accept the tabby pattern in one variation or another.

The body has narrow. Longhaired cats have less obvious markings than shorthaired cats since the length and thickness of the fur tend to hide the patterns somewhat. Classic tabby chocolate classic tabby aka blotched tabby ticked tabby. Darker spots stripes or whorls on a lighter brown background.

All tabbies have the same distinctive facial markings. The 5 tabby cat patterns 1. All about tabby cats and their color patterns types of tabby patterns. There are four basic variants of the tabby coat pattern and to say that a cat is tabby refers to the pattern itself rather than the colours involved in the pattern.

Brown mackeral tabbies are the most common. Visible in ticked tabby cats but hard to discern in shaded silver golden and tipped cats thin pencil lines on face. Breeds that accept the tabby pattern. Tabby coat markings tabby coat colors distinct color patterns with one color predominating.

This pattern usually has whorls ending in a target on the side of the cat. The tabby cat pattern features stripes swirls spots and ticks and can come in many colors. Sometimes called a tiger cat mackerel tabbies have one solid dark stripe along their spine with. This correct terminology isn t obvious until you consider that the stripes resemble the bones of a fish.

The markings can be better identified on the head legs and tail of kitties with short hair. A mackerel tabby has narrow stripes that run in parallel down her sides.