Havana Brown coat colors and patterns
Brown, with a registry split we state exactly. CFA and CCA-AFC score only brown as the judged color (lilac exists as an unscored AOV class). TICA has scored brown AND lilac as two equal colors since a 1983 name change. The deeper color story is institutional. In the UK and Australia, 'Havana' is not a breed's color but a color's name: GCCF's and ACF's chestnut-brown class of the Oriental Shorthair, worn by a different-bodied cat that Canada's own standard formally penalises. Even the whiskers are brown, a detail the standards call out.
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The color palette
Mahogany brown (the breed)
Brown whiskers (the hallmark detail)
Lilac (TICA's second color, 1983)
Green eyes (required)
The Havana Brown in color
Royalty-free photos (Wikimedia Commons), full credits on the breed profile.
What the standard says
Brown, with a registry split we state exactly. CFA and CCA-AFC score only brown as the judged color (lilac exists as an unscored AOV class). TICA has scored brown AND lilac as two equal colors since a 1983 name change. The deeper color story is institutional. In the UK and Australia, 'Havana' is not a breed's color but a color's name: GCCF's and ACF's chestnut-brown class of the Oriental Shorthair, worn by a different-bodied cat that Canada's own standard formally penalises. Even the whiskers are brown, a detail the standards call out.
