Colors & Coats

A pied French Bulldog is mostly white with brindle or fawn patches, linked to the MITF piebald gene. Here’s how white differs from pied, which pieds are standard (and why black and white and blue pied aren’t), the deafness question, BAER tests, pink vs white, and DNA testing.

Fawn and cream Frenchies are red-pigment colors made by the A and E genes. Here’s how the black mask works, what a cream coat can hide, why the nose matters, and where the AKC and UK disagree.

Some black-looking French Bulldogs are really very dark brindles, which are fully standard. True solid black can come from dominant black (KB), a variant of the CBD103 gene, and is disqualified in the show ring. Here’s how to tell them apart, with the genetics, standards, health notes, prices and DNA tests.

Brindle is the original French Bulldog color: dark stripes over fawn, made by one dominant gene variant, and standard in every major breed standard. Here’s the genetics, the trade names, the history and the price.

Lilac and isabella French Bulldogs look almost identical, but the names point to different genes. Here’s what UC Davis says, what breeders mean, and why only a DNA report tells you which dog you have.

Blue isn’t a new Frenchie color: the standard barred it for decades as “mouse.” Here’s the D locus genetics, the real 25% odds from two carriers, what’s known about color dilution alopecia, and what blue costs.