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intense. Note: since other breeders describe indigo as a darker version of blue, the "blue-
black" may have been exaggerated by lighting.
If there is a colour intensifier turning blue into indigo, it could be expected to work on the
other dilute colours as well e.g. turning lavender into deep lavender, fawn into rich fawn and
cream into rich cream. The differences would probably be too slight to be visible - it is
already hard enough to detect the caramels!
According to Inina Sadovnikova, "I believe every breeder has had cats of one and the same
colour, but of a different shade. Take a black (brown) tabby, for instance. They range in
shades from a light grey with a black pattern to a rich brown with a black pattern. Reds are
also very different, from a ginger to an intensive orange. The same concerns blue, I have seen
blues so dark that one doubts if they are really blue and not black. From my experience, I
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