Color de base
White with well defined patches
- Often in any shade of ‘lemon’, red, fawn, tan, or grey, with or without more or less blackened hair tips, even to the extent of looking tri-coloured, also white with solid black patches.
- Preferred: Any shape or distribution of patches, but symmetrical markings on head, covering eyes and ears, preferred, with or without a dark mask and preferably with a white marking around the muzzle
- Permissible: Slight ticking in the white in an otherwise excellent specimen

