The coats can range from white to a rich orange. Their are two coat patterns recognized, spotted and marbled. The spotted Bengals have dark spots on a contrasting lighter background colour. The spots take various shapes and are arranged in a horizontal alignment over the body and sometimes in a random configuration.
Rosetted spots have a mulitshaded light centres or shadows on the dark spots.
The desired marbled pattern has a randomly horizontal flow. Also, with marbling, it can have a darker orange than the background colouring, and these are called tri-coloured marbles. As unusual as that is, it's the rosetted markings that command the most attention for these markings are the closest to resembling their wild ancestors. All colours usually have striping on their legs with a bit of spotting and all should have black or nearly black tips on their tails and a light coloured spotted bellies. Their eye colour can be gold, green or blue.