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Palomino foals are usually born very light cream or almost white-colored, sometimes with pink skin, which becomes darker in the course of time.

Palomino color is commonly found in the Quarter Horse, Akhal-Teke, Lusitano, Kinsky, and Byelorussian Harness Horse, but rarely in the Thoroughbred, among others. In spite of wide belief, this color is not characteristic for heavy draft horses of European and Russian origin; those registered as palomino are usually, in reality, light chestnuts.

Horses homozygous for the Cream Dilution gene (double cream) are characterized by light-beige color, varying from pale cream or almost white to saturated yellow (ssss1). The skin is pink and eyelashes yellow or reddish. The eyes are most often blue, although you can also find golden, green, and greenish-blue with amber specks. In old literature on the subject, this color was not differentiated from light palomino (see ssss1).

In the past double cream diluted color was considered the manifestation of albinism, but this is incorrect. Albinism assumes the absence of any pigment in the hair and skin. White marks on the nose and legs are clearly visible in double cream diluted horses, consistent with the presence of pigment. The mane and tail could be the same color as the body, but it can also be brighter (white), or darker. When present, dapples on these horses have a light coffee color. The intensity of the color can be of an average shade, or light or dark.