Chono

A soft edged marking that creates a band of lightened colour along the horse's body, often starting at the throat and fading out over the hips or flank, but may also start lower on the body and end over the rump. May show subtle lightening around the eyes and muzzle. Colour is typically a light cream or soft grey, but never pure white. Chono may be slightly saturated, appearing lighter than the base colour, but should still retain it's generally cream appearance. Chono may have 'layers' of colour, or subtle gradients. It may also have subtle fur texturing around it's edges.

The marking may fork or split across the withers, but should be a fairly 'solid' and flowing mark, with no sharp changes in direction, swirled shape or broken patterning. Marking may have a break or gap, such as between the throat and torso, or shoulder and rump. Chono can extend the full range of the body length at maximum, from throat to rump. At minimum, a band of chono should cover the ribs, about the length of the horse's head.

Inspiration can be drawn from caribou and wolverines.

The geno code for Chono is written as:
nCn or CnCn

Range

Shaping and Gradients