Design Guide - Restricted Grey

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Restricted Grey

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SEE ALSO: 
Design Guide: Grey
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Restricted grey is a mutation of the grey modifier, which significantly lightens and
limits the spread of graying hairs to specific areas of the body, most commonly the withers, legs, and face.

Restricted grey Tokotas may remain almost completely saturated their entire life, with just these few patches of grey.

A restricted grey Tokota will never have an entirely greyed/de-saturated base.
Restricted grey must always be well-blended and blurred rather than a solid marking.


Left: Restricted Grey Tundra || Middle: Restricted Grey Tawny || Right: Restricted Grey Tawny

Restricted Grey on Black Base Coats

On black coats, restricted gray has an especially unpredictable effect, and may manifest in something
resembling pangare, erratic patterns, and/or stray patches of darkness amidst the graying hairs:






Minimum / Maximum (approximate)



Left: Approximate minimum || Right: Approximate maximum (on non-black coats)
Restricted gray is required to "silver" at least one zone of your tokota's coat.
Whether it be on the legs, face, or withers is up to you.
The silvering may be much lighter than a normal grey of that base coat.

The maximum on black coats may be much more extensive:





What not to do:


Left: Restricted grey is a straight gradient.
Silvering patches must be isolated to one or more "zones" of the body.
Middle: Similar to the above - this style also mimics roan.
Right: The majority of the body is de-saturated, with patches of color. It should be the other way around.




Restricted Grey + Seal

When restricted grey is present with seal, the gene may create  slight silvering 
or have a gradient effect on the grease spots, and/or create a variation in light and dark spots.




Good examples of Restricted Greying Tokotas:



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so If there's "greying" on the geno, it means that the Tokota has restricted gray?