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Poodle Colors
Cream: Tan, more yellow in tone and a lighter color than the lightest tan. The eyes are deep, soft brown; the jet black eye should not appear in a cream, being unbecoming to this color. Eye rims, nose, lips, and toenails are a very dark brown or black. Skin is blue and sometimes a tawny pink; it should not be spotted.
Apricot: A vivid bright color on the tone of the actual fruit, but usually lighter by several degrees; a brilliant orangey-peach color. Eyes are dark brown, but may be almost black or a dark reddish brown. Eye rims, nose, lips, and toenails are black. Skin is a matching shade of pinky tan several degrees darker than the coat. Sometimes the skin is blue or gray.
Red:
Blue:
Brown: There are many shades of brown. Two described in The Book of The Poodle are: A deep rich Mahogany or Dark Walnut, in its perfect tone, and a brilliant shade of chestnut, redder in tone than mahogany or walnut, but just as strong in tone and even right down to the roots of the hair. In all browns, the eyes are brown, dark amber, sometimes a golden brown, sometimes a reddish brown. The eye rims, lips, nose and toenails are brown to match the tone of the coat. Sometimes the toenails are black, but never the lips, nose and eye rims. Skin should match the tone of the coat in a lighter shade.
Cafe-Au-Lait: Beige, a tan with a gray overtone, the color of khaki. These French words mean coffee mixed with milk. The eyes are dark brown, amber, sometimes a reddish brown. Eye rims, lips, nose, and toenails are a liver-brown; sometimes the toenails are black. Skin is a light pinky gray or tan to match the hair in a lighter tone.
Black: A deep intense glowing black that in the sun gives off an almost metallic blue-black tone. Eyes very dark, not necessarily as black as those of a white, but so dark as to be described as a "black-brown," not just brown. Eye rims, lips, nose, and toenails black. Skin should have a distinct bluish cast.
Silver: May vary from a glistening light platinum to a light gray flannel, should be even in color. The eyes are very dark, almost as dark as the eyes of a white. Eye rims, lips, nose and toenails are black. Skin compatible with the tone of the hair, a gray tone, but can be almost black. Silvers clear at about 18 months of age. Silver Puppies are nearly always born jet black.
Silver Beige:
Grey: A solid even gray. The eyes are very dark, almost as dark as the eyes of a white. Eye rims, lips, nose and toenails are black. Skin compatible with the tone of the hair, a gray tone, but can be almost black.
Blue: A dark gray, somewhat the color of steel, the color of a Kerry Blue Terrier. No brown, rust, light gray or black should appear in the coat. Eyes are very dark, almost black; eye rims, lips, nose and toenails black; skin dark gray or almost black. Clears at about 2 or 3 years of age.
White: Clear and brilliant, with no cream, yellow or tan. A glistening, startling white. The eyes are jet black. Eye rims, nose and toenails are black. Skin is bluish, black, or silver, a solid color.
