Red - Range from bright red to pastel red and orange-red.
Orange – More yellow is present than in reds making them appear orange and sometimes pinkish.
Rusty – Looks like a mix of orange and brown, giving them a rusty reddish-brown colour.
Sulphur – This is somewhere in between yellow and orange, usually a very dark yellow or orangey-yellow.
Yellow – These remain yellow and don’t turn darker. They range from bright yellow to pale pastel.
Cream – Pale cream to yellow-cream, and don’t turn darker.
Moonglow – These geckos are pale grey all the time, and they have blue-grey eyes. Don’t be confused when your buckskin or red geckos go pale grey – this is common but they aren’t true moonglows.
Buckskin – Can be brown, yellowish brown or tan. This is the ‘normal’ or ‘wild-type’ crested gecko.
Chocolate – Darker than buckskin, this is a very dark brown which usually stays dark.
Olive – A combination of yellow and black giving the impression of greenish-tan or greenish-grey. They can range from light to dark.
Mocha – A light brownish-cream colour, quite rare in crested geckos.
Lavender – Another rare colour, the background is a pale purple-grey. Usually lavenders fire up a darker grey or black.
Patternless – These geckos have minimal patterning and uniform colour over the body. The belly is also patternless.
Bicolour – The head and back are a different (usually lighter) colour than the sides.
Flame/Fire – This pattern consists of a lighter colour present on the back and head broken by ‘flames’ and a darker background colour on the body. No pattern is present on the sides or limbs.
Chevron– The dorsal stripe is broken into V-shaped markings or bars. Unlike the flame or harlequin trait, the chevron-back geckos’ head is the same colour as the background colour on the body.
Harlequin – Similar to flame except mottled patterning occurs on the sides and limbs as well as the back. Extreme harlequins are so highly patterned that the background colour is reduced to a few small areas.
Tiger – Dark streaks resembling tiger stripes cover the head and body over a plain background. The belly is patterned as well with dark splotches.
Brindle – An extreme form of tiger, the stripes are much wider and denser to give more dark area and less of the lighter background, like a marble effect. The pattern also covers the head.
Dalmatian – Black spots randomly scattered over the gecko’s body. Some of the spots can be red or brown. Super dalmatians have large spots over most of the body.
Pinstripe – White stripes highlight the crests from the neck down to the base of the tail. Partial pinstripes only have some of the crests highlighted.
Reverse Pinstripe – Same as the pinstripe trait except the stripes are darker than the background colour, usually dark brown instead of white.
White-Fringed – These are white lines on the back of the hind limbs, which in extreme forms extends to the shins and postanal area. This trait is linked to the porthole trait.
Portholes – Lateral white blotches occur in a row along the sides of the body. This is linked with the white-fringe trait.
Blushing – This describes the pinkish tone under the chin of geckos displaying this trait. It appears to be independent of morph.
Freckled – Small brown spots are termed 'freckles' in crested geckos. Sometimes they disappear with age.
Halloween – This is a flame or harlequin gecko with orange and black colouration.
Blond – A cream and black flame/harlequin crested gecko is considered ‘blond’.
Creamsicle – These geckos are cream and orange or red with a flame or harlequin pattern.
Crowned – These geckos have enlarged fleshy crest lobes and a triangular head shape – typically the head length is less than 1.3 times the width.
Furry – The crest scales themselves are elongated giving a furry appearance.
Horned – The two scales on the tips of the triangular crests are elongated giving the appearance of horns.
Phantom/Patternless Pinstripe – The crests running from the neck to tail are raised and spiky, rather than rounded beads like most crested geckos.
Brown – This is the most common eye colour found in crested geckos. It can range from light to dark brown.
Gold/Copper – Less common, the eyes are a striking light gold-copper colour. This eye colour especially stands out in darker coloured geckos.
Pink/Red – The eyes are a light red-pink colour. It is said to be caused by the veins in the eye.
Blue/Grey – This eye colour in crested geckos is rare. The eyes are a very light grey-blue.