Maine Coon Cat Colors - Colors prevalent in Maine Coon cats

There are a variety of 75 Maine Coon cat colors which are common. These colors include blue, red, black, white, silver, and brown.

Maine Coons can be with white patches of varying degrees or a completely solid color with no white.

Maine Coons Patterns are separate from the coat’s color.

Some of the patterns include classic, mackerel, spotted/ticked patterns.

Solid Maine Coon cat Colors

Genetically, only four basic solid colors appear in cats: The colors are:

  • Black.
  • Cinnamon.
  • Chocolate brown classic, and
  • Red color.

All other solid Maine Coon colors are a modifications of these.

Red is a form of tabby color as it is impossible to completely eliminate the tabby markings.

You might be thinking, “What about white cats?”

White however is counted as an absence of color rather than a color.

It should be noted that different countries, registries and breeds have different names for some of the same basic colors. 

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white colored Maine coon

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Black colored Maine coon

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Red colored Maine coon

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Blue colored Maine coon

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Cream colored Maine coon

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Bi-colored Maine Coons

A bicolor Maine Coon cat is a Maine Coon with white fur combined with fur of some other color, for example, black.

There are various patterns of bicolor cats.

The cats patterns range from Turkish Van pattern which indicates color on the crown of the head and the tail only and a solid color with a throat locket.

These bi-colors are as follows:

  • BLACK & WHITE

  • BLUE & WHITE

  • RED & WHITE

  • CREAM & WHITE

SHELL, SHADED and SMOKE Cat colors

What is a smoke colored Maine Coon cat?

Smoke Color Maine Coons are a solid color cat that carries an inhibitor gene which suppresses the color in the hair shaft.

This means that the cat’s hairs are dark at the tips but have much lighter colored bands near the bottom.

All solid colored Maine-coons can be affected by the inhibitor gene.

When a Maine Coon is affected by this gene in cats, they are labelled “Smoke” plus the underlining solid color.

Red Colored Maine Coon + Inhibitor Gene =Red Smoke Colored Maine Coon.

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Smoke colored Maine coon

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Shaded colored Maine coon

Differences between Shell, Shaded and Silver Maine coon colour

The difference in these cats is in the percentage of hair ends colored in the Maine Coon.

  1. Shell color cats have 12% or 1/8 of the hair ends are colored.

  2. Shaded color cats have 33% or 1/3 of the hair ends are colored and

  3. Silver classic color cats or black silver have more than 33% of the hair ends colored.

To keep your Maine coon’s coat shiny and color vibrant, learn about tips that will help you on how to groom a Maine Coon cat.

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