Color Variations
Recognized Colors
Brown
This color has a large range of background colours from a very cool greyish brown, golden, to red-brown. The brown Bengal will have black or deep brown spotted or marble pattern. Their eye colors are green or golden.
Silver
This colour has a background of almost white, silvery or silver in colour with inky black spotted or marble pattern. Their eye colour is green or golden.
Snow
This term refers to a group of colours with three distinctive genetic variations being the Seal Lynx Point, the Seal Mink and the Seal Sepia.
Seal lynx point (genetically a "cs, cs" Snow, Siamese gene)
The SLP is the lightest of the snow group in colour and most often is born white or with very faint markings. Their pattern usually comes in later and most often starting at the points. The SLP will have a brownish-grey, tan or buff spotted or marble pattern on a white or cream background. The one very unique thing about the SLP is that they are the only Bengal colour with the clear ice blue eye colour.
The SLP is the lightest of the snow group in colour and most often is born white or with very faint markings. Their pattern usually comes in later and most often starting at the points. The SLP will have a brownish-grey, tan or buff spotted or marble pattern on a white or cream background. The one very unique thing about the SLP is that they are the only Bengal colour with the clear ice blue eye colour.
Seal Mink (genetically a "cb, cs" Snow, Tonkanese gene)
The SM will usually be born with a detectable pattern that will usually darken some as they grown. The colour background of the SM is usually in ivory, cream or buff with an almost caramel-chocolate tone to their spotted or marbled pattern. Sm's have aqua or green eyes.
The SM will usually be born with a detectable pattern that will usually darken some as they grown. The colour background of the SM is usually in ivory, cream or buff with an almost caramel-chocolate tone to their spotted or marbled pattern. Sm's have aqua or green eyes.
Seal Sepia (genetically a "cb, cb" Snow, Burmese gene)
Are usually the darkest of the snow group and are most often born with a distinctive pattern in seal brown to dark seal brown spotted or marble pattern. The SS eye colour is golden or green.
Are usually the darkest of the snow group and are most often born with a distinctive pattern in seal brown to dark seal brown spotted or marble pattern. The SS eye colour is golden or green.
Non-Recognized Colors
Besides the recognized colours listed above the Bengal Cat can produce other rare colours that have been brought down through the generations with recessive genes that can show up from time to time.
Charcoal

Charcoal Bengals are a little different than the other colors in that Charcoal isn´t a seperate color on its own, it is just a variation in the genes that cause any of the other colors to be a charcoal variant of that color. We now know that one of the components to produce a charcoal comes from the Asian Leopard Cat (ALC). Without getting into too much detail on the genetics of it, to get a charcoal Bengal you would need one solid gene (a) and one Asian Leopard Agouti gene (Apb) giving you a cat that is Apb/a (Charcoal).
So essentially it is possible to have a brown charcoal, snow charcoal, silver charcoal or even silver snow charcoal.
Charcoals have a mask which is very dark pigment in the face and white around the eyes. Their background color is darker than the non-charcoal version and the rosettes are also typically much darker. Charcoals also typically have a cape, which is a thick band of dark color down their spine, although not always as visible in the charcoal snows.
Since just recently there is a genetic test for the charcoal gene.
So essentially it is possible to have a brown charcoal, snow charcoal, silver charcoal or even silver snow charcoal.
Charcoals have a mask which is very dark pigment in the face and white around the eyes. Their background color is darker than the non-charcoal version and the rosettes are also typically much darker. Charcoals also typically have a cape, which is a thick band of dark color down their spine, although not always as visible in the charcoal snows.
Since just recently there is a genetic test for the charcoal gene.
Blue
This colour tends to have a peachy toned background colour with bluish-gray spotted or marbled pattern. The Blue Bengal's pattern and markings will never turn black. This dilute colour is not found in the wild cat species and therefore currently not considered for inclusion in the breed.
Solid Snow/Melanistic/Smoke
A Solid Bengal can come in any of the colors listed above. A solid brown (called a Melanistic) essentially looks like a solid black bengal, although in the right lighting you can see the markings. A solid Snow doesn´t have any of white markings in the face or anywhere on the body, their markings are darker overall and they have darker points. There are also solid Blues and solid Silvers (called Smoke).
Glitter
Glitter is a highly desirable trait and not all Bengals have it. You can recognize glitter, by the sparkling effect of the cats coat. Even in low lighting you can see the sheen of the glitter on the front paws and legs of a glittered Bengal. "Glitter" is a translucent hollow hair shaft that catches light and reflects it, that is present throughout the pelt.The best way to visualize the glitter effect is it to think of it as a sprinkling of gold, silver or crystal fairy dust over the coat that shimmers when the cat moves in certain lights. Having Glitter in a pelt is amazingly eye catching.
While glitter is not required in the Bengal breed it is highly prized and enhances their exotic quality as a unique breed.
While glitter is not required in the Bengal breed it is highly prized and enhances their exotic quality as a unique breed.