Appearance

Leopard appaloosa causes white appaloosa patterns with many spots of varying sizes. The spots should appear as holes in the white markings, showing the base coat underneath.

Leopard appaloosa can have very roaned edges on the white markings.

Mane and tail will be affected where white markings touch, however in the case of a blanket pattern it is optional whether it affects the mane/tail or not.

Optional effect: Dark spots

Leopard appaloosa can have much darker spots than the main coat present, filling in the holes in the pattern or even appearing outside.

Dark spots can optionally affect mane and tail where they touch.

Optional effect: Snowflake

Snowflake causes a "reverse leopard" appearance, with white spots on a colored coat.

The white spots should be smaller than regular appaloosa spots, and can have a roaned appearance.

Snowflake appaloosa can be combined with other leopard appaloosa patterns, such as blanket leopard appaloosa and dark spots shown in the examples below.

Optional effect: Varnish

Leopard appaloosa can have a varnished appearance, with a heavily roaned uneven pattern as if the white has been sandpapered off.

There should still be a spotted leopard pattern present on varnished leopard appaloosa, or snowflake appaloosa spots.

Optional effect: Mismarked

Mismarked appaloosa causes random areas to be absent of white, or have the dark spots/holes clumped together so tightly that they form larger splotches of color.

Mismarked can appear anywhere on the body and in any size.

Optional effect: Peacock

The peacock appaloosa effect causes the spots to have a white halo and speckling around them.

Peacock appaloosa can be combined with other leopard appaloosa patterns, such as blanket leopard appaloosa shown in the example below.