Persian cat colors are divided into 8 types of colors, namely solid colors, silver and golds, shaded and smoke, tabbies, particolor, bicolor, and himalayan.
1. Solid Colors
Persian cats with solid colors are cats that have one color for their body which are usually black, blue, red, white, beige, purple and brown. In this type of solid color cat there is no mixing of other colors, for example black, yes all black fur. But you can also find white Persian cats that have blue eyes, or copper or even one blue and the other copper eyes.
2. Silvers and Golds
You can also find silver and gold Persian cats in Chinchilla Persian cats, although many consider that Chinchillas are a separate cat breed, but there are some countries that consider this a special type of Persian cat. This type of cat has most of the silver and white color in the lower layer and black tipping evenly on the tail, body side and back, head and ears.
Tipping is a term to indicate that only the tip of the fur is colored, or in a chinchilla cat one-eighth the length of the cat's fur is black on the outside. Golden Chinchillas are the rarest cats, with the characteristics of black tipping on the kream fur. The characteristics of Chinchilla persian cats can also be identified by their eyes that are different from other types of cats, eye color that can change green or blue-green with a black frame you can use to recognize this type of persian cat.
3. Shaded & Smoke
In general, this type of cat's color is like a solid colored cat, but you will find something different when this cat has begun to move or the fur is separated because of the wind, you will see the other side that has a color like smoke / smoke, which is silvery white. Basically, almost 50 to 80% of these cat hairs are solid colors, namely blue, black, beige, red but the rest are silvery white. The characteristics of the type of Persian cat shaded & smoke can also be recognized by the color of his eyes, which is copper.
4. Tabbies
The term tabby itself actually refers to the patterns / patterns that exist in Persian cat fur. Basically cat fur consists of white fur with dark spots, or with stripes, or with marble. So that three different persian cat signs appear as follows:
a. Tabby Mackerel
People usually consider this species to be similar to a tiger, where there are several lines whose orientation is 90 degrees on the spine and the whole body
b. Tabby marble
The pattern is wide lines curved over the body and different from the lines on the tabby mackerel which tend to be straight.
c. Patched Tabby
Maybe it's strange, the name, patched / patch in Persian cats is caused because there are spots on the cat's fur and it's evenly distributed throughout the body.
5. Himalayas
The Himalayan persian cat is one of the most popular persian cats. This type of cat has a color called the color point. Cats that have this type of color point are usually a combination / interbreeding between Persian cats and Siamese cats.
Color point itself is actually a condition in which certain parts of the body are black while others are white. The black color is usually on the tail, legs, ears and face.