Light merle appaloosa Light merle appaloosas have a cream coat with light brownish spots. This happens to be a paint light red merle appaloosa. Notice that the coat appears to be an overall cream color and that it is hard to see the spots. This picture shows a red merle. This color is relatively common in llamas.
Blue merles are rare but occur.
Because they are controlled by different genes, both patterns may occur on the same llama. Here is a picture of a light dilute appaloosa paint and a red merle appaloosa paint. Roan Roan is a color modifier than can occur in conjunction with any other color. As is typical, the head and legs remain dark. Or only part of the coat may be roan, as in this picture of two bay roan paint babies.