Unnatural Fur Color Guide

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Unnatural Fur Color Rules

Unnatural fur color:

• Must still follow a natural pattern, just unnaturally colored.
• Does not allow for unnatural combinations of natural colors.
• It must use colors like green, sky blue, pink, purple, apple red, etc.
• Can replace each color on a cat individually.
• For example, the inside of rosettes can be a different color from the outside.
• Can replace just one color on a cat, but must replace that color fully.

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Their coat “under” the unnatural fur color:

• Must be listed when the cat is posted.
• Must match the patterns visible on their coat.
• Must match any remaining natural colors on the coat.

All these rules are explained in depth, with examples, on the following slides!

Unnatural Fur Color: Designs

Rule 1

• Unnatural fur color must still follow a natural pattern, just unnaturally colored.
• For example, tabbies should still have stripes that are darker than the base coat.
• Tabbies can’t have 5-colored stripes, but a tortie tabby could have two stripe colors.
• You can find Stars’ simple guide to realistic coats here.

Rule 1; More Examples

The first cat has too many colors for a tortie, while the second has just two colors (making them a legal tortie).

Colorpoints should have points that are darker than their center, not lighter.

Tabby markings should still follow a realistic pattern.

Rule 2

• Unnatural fur color does not allow for unnatural combinations of natural colors.
• An unnatural fur color edit allows you to replace colors on a cat’s coat with unnatural colors, like apple red, sky blue, green, neon yellow, purple, and pink.
• You cannot replace colors with another natural color. For example, you can’t have white stripes on black, or (cat color) red stripes on brown. These are natural colors combined unnaturally.
• You can have an unnatural color like sky blue, green, etc. on white! This would be an unnaturally colored silver tabby.

• To fix the second cat, you could change the cat red to the color red! This would be a black or chocolate tabby with unnaturally colored stripes.

Rule 2; More Examples

You can’t change white spotting to be black, because black is a natural color. You can keep it white or change it to an unnatural color.

Unnaturally colored cats can’t have stripes on a pure black base, because no tabbies have a black base.

Rule 3

• Unnatural fur color can replace each color on a cat individually.
• This means that the color of an unnaturally-colored cat’s stripes does not need to match the color underneath!
• The colors do need to be distinct though. For example, you can’t have green stripes and white spotting that’s the same shade of green.
• Note that these colors should also still follow a realistic pattern. This means that stripes should be darker than the base, colorpoints should have dark points, etc.

Rule 4

• Unnatural fur color can replace just one color on a cat, but must replace that color fully.
• For example, if you’re just changing the stripe color, then you must completely change the stripe color.
• The remaining realistic colors on the cat will define their genetic coat “under” the unnatural color. (This coat will be used for breeding purposes when unnatural fur color doesn’t pass.)
• You can read more about this in the next section.

Unnatural Fur Color: Descriptions

Unnaturally-colored cats will not always pass their unnatural fur color edit to their kits. Because of this, all unnaturally-colored cats should have a genetic coat to describe what they are “under” their unnatural color.

Patterns

• An unnaturally-colored cat’s genetic coat must match the patterns visible on their coat.
• For example: the first cat here must have a genetic coat of some sort of mackerel tabby with low white, because their stripes are mackerel tabby stripes, and the solid pink spots are unnaturally-colored white spotting.
• The second cat here must be some sort of solid colorpoint (or possibly mink point), because they have no tabby stripes, and show a colorpoint pattern.

Colors

• An unnaturally-colored cat’s genetic coat must also match any remaining realistic colors visible on their coat.
• For example, the green and gray cat here would have the genetic coat of “blue* mackerel tabby.” This is because the base coat is gray, which is only possible on blue tabbies.
• The second cat here would have the genetic coat of “black tortoiseshell” because they still have black on their coat, and have tortie patterning.

* Blue in this case refers to the formal cat term for gray.

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