White

A pure white coat — a masking colour, not a pigment of its own.

EMS code: wGroup: White

The genetics

Dominant white (W) masks all other colour: a white cat genetically carries some underlying colour that the white simply hides.

Cats in this colour

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Is white a colour or a mask?+

Dominant white masks the cat's underlying colour — the cat still carries a colour genetically, hidden under the white.

Black

A dense, full-strength black coat — the baseline eumelanin colour.

Blue (Grey)

A soft blue-grey — the dilute form of black.

Red (Ginger)

A warm orange-red — produced by the sex-linked orange gene.

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