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Brown

Brown Bengals come in a huge range of colour tones, from a very cool brown (looking almost grey) to a warm brown (almost orange). They can have light brown to black rosettes. Their eye colour can be green, gold, or a mixture of the two.

 

Snow

Snow Bengals are divided into three categories - Seal Lynx, Mink, and Sepia.

Seal Lynx Point (SLP) is the lightest, they are most often born completely white and their pattern develops as they get older. As adults they can have a background colour that is white, cream, or greyish coloured and pale to medium coloured rosettes. They typically have darker markings at the points (head, feet, tail). Seal Lynx have blue eyes.

 

Minks are born with a visible pattern. As adults they can have a light cream to light tan background colour with light to medium tan coloured rosettes. Mink Bengals have Aqua coloured eyes.

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Sepias look similar to mink at a young age, but as adults most closely resemble brown Bengals. The difference is the background and marking colour is usually slightly lighter, although some can look more like a Mink. Sepia Bengals have green to gold coloured eyes.
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Charcoal

Charcoal Bengals come in a variety of colours. Charcoal Bengals tend to have a dark mask on the face (black line down the nose and under the eyes), and a dark cape (wide band of black or brown down the back). Being a charcoal can affect their overall coloring, which you will see with the charcoal browns.

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Charcoal Browns are very dark in overall colour. They tend to have black markings with a more silvery background colour instead of the usual brown. Sometimes they can have brown colouring mixed in as well.

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Charcoal SLPs are similar in colouring as that of a typical SLP. The biggest difference is in the face, they have a striking black mask. There is a progression of the facial mask darkening as the Bengal gets older.

 

Charcoal Minks are slightly darker than regular Minks and have a black face mask.

Charcoal Sepias are not quite as dark as Charcoal Browns, but are much darker than regular Sepias.

 

Silver

Every Bengal colour can come in Silver. Silver is sometimes difficult to determine as the cat can look similar to a cool brown colour if there is tarnish. Silver snows (especially SLP) do not look much different than the non-silver variety. There is currently no color test for silver. 

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Silvers have a silver coloured background with black markings. There should be little to no brown colouring on the cat, this is called tarnish. It is commonly found on the face.

 

Silver SLPs look very similar to regular SLP and are often difficult to distinguish as young kittens. As adults, you can see the face and legs have more silver colouring.

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Silver Minks look very similar to regular Mink and are often difficult to distinguish as young kittens. As adults, you can see the face and legs have more silver colouring.

 

Solid

Solid Bengals or Melanistic Bengals have very muted markings. Some of the colours available in solid:

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1.    Melanistic (Solid Brown)- Melanistic are             essentially a black cat. As a kitten the               markings are visible, but as adults                     typically the marking are not visible.                   Sometimes in certain lighting you can see         “ghost markings”, similar to a black                   panther.

2.   Smoke (Solid Silver)

3.   Solid SLP

4.   Solid Mink