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Pearl colors:

 Bay pearl

 Black pearl

 Seal brown pearl

 Chestnut pearl

Mixed diluted colors (colors determined simultaneously by combinations of different dilution genes):

 Dun and cream

 Dun and silver

 Cream and silver

 Cream and champagne

 Cream and pearl

 And others

 Gray

 Roan

 Spotted

 Appaloosa-spotting patterns (Leopard complex)

To summarize, there are four base colors, plus genes controlling all remaining colors. Figuratively speaking their “actions” are superimposed on the four base colors. I also introduce a separate category I call color phenomena: countershading, rabicano, pangaré, brindle, gloss of body hair, false dun, and giraffe marks, as well as characteristics of the horse’s coat where the genetic nature is not proven or the characteristics do not remain stable over time. Examples include dapples, the phenomenon of “Catch A Bird,” and frosty.

You can’t learn about horse color without learning at least a little bit about equine genetics.