Traits
(CRCR) double cream (Natural)
Name: Double Cream
Base Genotype: CRCR (on the same locus as Champagne and Pearl)
Skin Color: Turns skin pink, regardless of base coat.
Eyes: Turns both eyes blue, unless a horse has an eye color gene such as Oracle, Arcane, or Tiger eye. If an eye color gene is present, it takes precedence and is visible.
Description: Cream lightens the red pigments in the coat, and is an Incomplete Dominant gene. This means that one copy of cream (CRn) will look different from a horse with two copies of cream (CRCR), with Double Cream causing even more lightening of the coat color and causing hoof color to lighten. While single cream does not affect black pigment, double cream does. If combined with another dilution copy on the same locus, such as pearl (CRprl) or champagne (CRCR CH_) it will cause the horse appear as a double dilute very similar to double cream. Double Cream has several names for it's variations, which can all be searched on for real-life references:
- "Cremello" : a chestnut horse with double cream.
- "Perlino" : a bay horse with double cream (not to be confused with a pearl horse!)
- "Smoky Cream" : when a black horse has double cream.
Design Guidance: Double cream lightens the horse to an extreme degree and should have a slight yellow tone. It will make all hooves light in color. Double cream does not make horses pure white. Horses may have slighty different variations of the examples below, but not by much. Colorpicking is encouraged. Cream does interact with Grim and Ember; see dilution guides on their respective trait pages.