Equine -Centaurian
Colors
This color guide is for Roleplayers who want to play
equine/centaur type characters and want realistic coat colors.
This is just a sampling with a few pics each. As far as I know, none
of the pics I gathered are forbidden for use on a personal roleplaying website.
Please remember this site is only for Roleplayers and wasn't
designed to be an official horse color guide! If any of the pics do
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Appaloosa | A coat marking unique to its breed. Typically a grey or white
patch on the posterior (rump area) with many small black or darker grey spots.
Sometimes the patched area will cover the entire rump and blend its
way along the back and barrel, referred to as a Blanket Appaloosa. Leopard Appaloosa, light coat with spots of color throughout, like a dalmation dogs coat. Appys come in many colors, chestnut, gray, black, palomino, dun, buckskin, etc. |
Bay | A mix of red and yellow hairs that produce a rich shade of reddish brown. The tail, mane, and leg shadings are always black. There are Golden Bays, Dark Bays, Blood Bays, Mahogany Bays. |
Black | A true black coat is completely black without any lighter areas, except for white leg markings if they occur, and white markings on the face such as blazes. The skin under the coat is always black, never pink, except under any white markings if there are any. |
Brindle | Coat has stripes rather like a cat or dogs coat, stripes running mostly horizontally, often has a texture which helps the stripes stand out more. Pretty rare in horses, so far. |
Brown | A brown coat is an incomplete black (a dark chocolately or black brown) and can be distinguished by brown or tan hairs, typically on the inside of the legs. White leg shadings may or may not be present. |
Buckskin | A coat of yellowish color ranging from a pale yellow to dusty gold brown, to any shade of gold. There may or may not be dappling present. The tail, mane and leg shadings are black. Sometimes there may be silver or white blended into the mane, tail, or coat, also there may be white stockings along with the black leg shadings. May or may not be a black dorsal stripe running the length of the back to the tail. Buckskins that exhibit leg striping/tigering, smutty necks, brown mane/tail/legshadings, will usually be considered Duns. |
Champagne | This gene causes a dillution of whatever color it is affecting. Classic Champagne is a dilution of black, coat is a beige color with chocolate points, mane, tail. Gold Champagne is a dilute of chestnut and sorrel, pale yellowish coat with silverish mane and tail. Born with blue eyes that turn hazel or green, skin is pink and mottles with age. Coats are usually high sheen or metallic sheen. |
Chestnut | A chestnut coat is basically red in color and ranges from a light golden yellow red to a very dark red. The tail is usually the same color as the coat, but may be lighter red to Flaxen (golden). Any leg markings would be white. Quarterhorse breeders tend to refer to chestnuts as "Sorrels". A chestnut that is more golden than red is sometimes referred to as a Golden Chestnut or Blonde Chestnut, Copper Chestnut. Liver Chestnut coat is very dark like liver, may have same color mane and tail, or may have white to flaxen mane and tail. |
Cremello | A coat of slightly yellowed (ivory-ish) hair, just enough color to distinguish it from white. Skin is pink. Blue eyes. |
Dun | This color has several variants. Golden dun, red dun, brown point dun, smoky dun, silver dun, black dun, etc....there are plenty of names depending on who you talk to. Duns will often have dorsal stripes and or leg striping/tigering. |
Grey | A mixture of black and white hairs, possibly nearly black. A gray
coat tends to lighten with age. Flea bitten gray, a medium to light gray coat with tiny flecks of chestnut and black throughout, tail and mane are usually gray, gray/black, gray/black/white/chestnut. Dapple Gray, gray coat with darker shadings of gray in which light gray spots are present. Dappled grays tend to fade with age, ending up almost white. Black Silver Dapple, mostly a mini and pony color, coat is a medium to dark gray/brown/black with lighter silver dapples occuring throughout, mane and tail are usually light/dark silver mix, or flaxen shades. Rose Gray, a coat of light or dark gray/or mixed, with chestnut hairs mixed in, usually in irregular soft edged patches, often giving the horse a "rosy" look where the red is present. |
Grulla | Coat hair is smokey or mouse colored, not a mixture of black and white, mane and tail are black, lower legs also, can have dorsal stripe. A silver grulla is a light shade of gray with black mane and tail, leg shadings. Some call a light silver grulla a Silver Buckskin or Silver Dun. |
Palomino | Coat is basically white or whitish with some light shading on knees and fetlocks, blue eyes. |
Pintaloosa | A horse coat that is a mix of appaloosa markings (rump or blanket spotting) and pinto markings (white and color patches). Some people find this a terrible coat coloration, others love it and find it very interesting. Can be in any color range that a pinto and appaloosa are produced in. |
Pinto | A coat of irregular white and colored areas, typically in either tobiano or tovero patterns. Quarterhorse breeders prefer to call a pinto, a "paint". There are chestnut pintos, palomino pintos, gray pintos, black pintos, buckskin pintos, bay/tri pintos, etc. |
Roan | A coat with white hairs mixed among one or more of the other basic
body colors. Red Roan, blue roan, black roan, strawberry roan, dun roan, etc. |
White | A coat of pure white, technically albino, but without pink eyes. The skin beneath the coat is pink. |