American Shorthair Colors

The American Shorthair colors are specified under the breed standard. I’ll quote from the CFA breed standard. There are 69 specified coat types and colors on my calculation. The highly favored eye color is brilliant gold and the eye color is specified for each coat type/color.

American shorthair cat tiger

Some of these coat colors are very refined and there will be no pictures available or you’ll be lucky to find one. The classic silver tabby is perhaps the best known for this cat breed. Your breeder will be able to help. Link to a page on this cat breed.

  1. White
  2. Black
  3. Blue
  4. Red
  5. Cream
  6. Chinchilla Silver
  7. Shaded Silver
  8. Shell Cameo
  9. Shaded Cameo
  10. Black Smoke
  11. Blue Smoke
  12. Cameo Smoke
  13. Tortoiseshell Smoke
  14. Blue Chinchilla Silver
  15. Blue Shaded Silver
  16. Cream Shell Cameo
  17. Cream Shaded Cameo
  18. Blue Cream Smoke
  19. Smoke and White
  20. Black Smoke and White
  21. Blue Smoke and White
  22. Tortoiseshell Smoke and White
  23. Shell Cameo and White
  24. Shaded Cameo and White
  25. Smoke Cameo and White
  26. Classic Tabby 
  27. Mackerel Tabby 
  28. Ticked Tabby
  29. Patched Tabby
  30. Brown Patched Tabby
  31. Blue Patched Tabby
  32. Silver Patched Tabby
  33. Blue Silver Patched Tabby
  34. Silver Tabby
  35. Blue Silver Tabby
  36. Red Tabby
  37. Brown Tabby
  38. Blue Tabby
  39. Cream Tabby
  40. Cameo Tabby
  41. Cream Cameo Tabby
  42. Tabby and White
  43. Silver Tabby and White
  44. Silver Patched Tabby and White
  45. Cameo Tabby and White
  46. Brown Tabby and White
  47. Brown Patched Tabby and White
  48. Blue Tabby and White
  49. Blue Patched Tabby and White
  50. Red Tabby and White
  51. Cream Tabby and White
  52. Shaded Silver and White
  53. Chinchilla Silver and White
  54. Shaded Calico and White
  55. Dilute Shaded Calico and White
  56. Blue Shaded Calico and White
  57. Blue Shaded Silver and White
  58. Tortoiseshell
  59. Chinchilla Shaded Tortoiseshell
  60. Shaded Tortoiseshell
  61. Dilute Chinchilla Shaded Tortoiseshell
  62. Dilute Shaded Tortoiseshell
  63. Calico
  64. Dilute Calico
  65. Blue-cream
  66. Bi-color
  67. Van bicolor
  68. Van calico
  69. Van dilute Calico

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  2. Love that Photo of the Classic tabby its alot Like Tiger While Cassy was more of a Brown Tiger has more Black in him. Just Love the Tabbby Cats.

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