Solid colours
Base colour
Black, white, brown
- Brown should be deep, rather dark, uniform and warm.
- Undesirable: Any white marking in black and brown coats
- Grey, fawn Beige and its paler derivatives
- Grey must be uniform, deep, neither blackish nor whitish, but depending on age may present some shades of grey.
- Fawn must be uniform.
- Can go from pale fawn to red fawn or even be orange fawn (apricot).
- Eyelids, nose, lips, gums, palate, natural orifices, scrotum and pads are well pigmented.
- For light fawn subjects, all pigmentation should be as dark as possible.
- Undesirable: Any white marking in grey and fawn coats
- Other colours: Parti-coloured dogs, two colours Predominance of white colour, with the other being distributed irregularly: Black and white.
- Blue/grey and white.
- Fawn and white.
- Brown and white.
- (Some patches can appear on the white parts on the legs or the body, but they are not sought after) Predominance of a clear colour with white parts on the legs, forechest and sometimes a mask on the muzzle and/or tip of the tail (dogs with mantle, tuxedo) Brown coloured back Black coloured back Dogs with fawn coat colour: (predominance of one colour, with clearly defined fawn markings of a clear fawn colour): Brown with fawn markings Black with fawn markings Mandatory fawn markings: • above each eye • on the cheeks and inside the ears • on the side of the muzzle • at the end of each limb and inside • on the chest, around the scrotum in males and around the vulva in females Fawn markings should not be charcoal or too pale.
- Undesirable: Any white marking
- Tricoloured: Black, white and marked with fawn.
- Fawn markings present at least on the eyebrows and around the scrotum in males and on the vulva in females.
- Other pluricoloured dogs: Brindle and white Brindle