Great Dane

Coat

Black & Harlequin

Solid:
White Markings: allowed as trim on the chest and toes, irish spotting, blanket, piebald, or extreme spotting pattern.
In piebalds and extreme whites, the head should be solid-coloured, with a white muzzle and/or blaze.
Patches preferred over a clear white body.
Ticking/Roaning: Slight ticking allowed.
Harlequin: Modified form of merle - with torn patches. There may be a few patches among them, but this is not preferred.
The dog must have at least one medium size patch on the front end, two on the belly/middle area, and one on the back end. An appearance of a large solid-coloured blanket, a mostly white body with mainly tiny spots, or many very small spots giving a ticked appearance is not desirable.
All harlequins may have flesh spots around the eyes and/or muzzle.
For selectively bred harlequins, the dog must have at least three spots on the front section (head not included in count), at least two spots on the middle section, and at least three spots on the hind section.

Any Other Variety (AOV)

Solid:
PF Magic danes only may be with mask, or with a mask
Brindle: with striping.
Masking: All except blue dogz may have masking (standard mask). Masking is optional but strongly preferred.
A bit of on the jowls as premature greying is allowed.
Urajiro: Allowed on all of the above.
White Markings: allowed as trim on the chest and toes, but not preferred.

Eyes

Blue dogz have . is also accepted, but faulted.
Harlequins may have one or two . is also accepted, but less preferred.
allowed in all colours, but less preferred.
and odd-eyed green-teal is allowed in the PF Magic file, but less preferred.

Nose

Blue dogz have
Harlequins may have , or a mixture of black and flesh, but solid flesh is faulted for this colour and DQ in all others.