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Colours describe how a Neopet or Petpet looks, sometimes being in a different hued coat (i.e., Pink, Spotted, Starry), or other times, being entirely different to its base appearance (i.e., Baby, Maraquan, Robot).
Note: As Neopets is a British website, British English is commonly used around the site. Therefore, 'colour' is the correct Neopian spelling instead of 'color', as the word is spelled in American English.
How to Change a Pet's Colour[]
- Main article: Change Your Pet
There are several different ways to change a pet's colour, the most common being with a paint brush.
The pet's colour (or in certain cases, species) can also be changed via Magical Plushies, Morphing Potions, Chia and Kacheek Flour (Battledome only), Magical Chia Pops, the Lab Ray, or the annual Holiday Dream Neopet Giveaway or Species Change Premium perk.
How to Change a Petpet's Colour[]
A Petpet's colour can be changed via a Petpet Paint Brush or the Petpet Lab Ray; Petpets that have their colour changed via the latter method will convert them back to their pre-zapped state.
List of Neopet Colours[]
Basic[]
These colours are available upon creating a pet. They are also available via Starter Paint Brushes from the Quest Log Tutorial and the common methods mentioned above.
Paintable[]
These colours are available via Paint Brushes. Most of these can also be attained through the common methods mentioned above.
- 25th Anniversary
- Baby
- Biscuit
- Brown
- Camouflage
- Candy
- Checkered
- Christmas
- Cloud
- Darigan
- Desert
- Dimensional
- Disco
- Elderly
- Electric
- Eventide
- Faerie
- Fire
- Ghost
- Glowing
- Gold
- Grey
- Halloween
- Invisible
- Island
- Maractite
- Maraquan
- Marble
- Oil Paint
- Orange
- Origami
- Pastel
- Pink
- Pirate
- Plushie
- Polka Dot
- Purple
- Quiguki
- Rainbow
- Relic
- Royal
- Shadow
- Silver
- Sketch
- Skunk
- Snow
- Speckled
- Split
- Spotted
- Starry
- Stealthy
- Steampunk
- Strawberry
- Striped
- Swamp Gas
- Toy
- Transparent
- Tyrannian
- Usuki
- Valentine
- Water
- White
- Woodland
- Wraith
- Zombie
Special[]
Some colours may not be attainable via Paint Brushes, but may be achieved through other means.
Lab Ray Exclusives[]
Lab & RF Exclusives[]
- Alien
- Clay
- Chocolate
- Coconut — Chias can also be fed a Magical Coconut Chia Pop.
- Custard
- Garlic
- Jelly
- Mallow
- Snot
Magical Chia Pop Exclusives[]
- Agueena
- Apple
- Asparagus
- Aubergine
- Avocado
- Banana
- Blueberry
- Carrot
- Chokato
- Coconut
- Durian
- Gooseberry
- Grape
- Juppie Swirl
- Lemon
- Lime
- Onion
- Orange
- Pea
- Peach
- Pear
- Pepper
- Pineapple
- Plum
- Potato
- Strawberry
- Thornberry
- Tomato
- Ummagine
Other[]
- 8-bit: Available from an 8-bit Power-Up Potion
- Magma: Available via the Magma Pool
- Mutant: Available from Transmogrification Potions
- Robot: Available from a One-Use Robotification Zappermajig
Retired Colours[]
List of Petpet Colours[]
Paintable[]
These colours are available via Petpet Paint Brushes, the Petpet Lab Ray, or elsewhere on the site.
- 25th Anniversary
- Baby
- Black
- Blue
- Checkered
- Christmas
- Clay
- Cloud
- Custard
- Darigan
- Desert
- Disco
- Dung
- Elderly
- Electric
- Eventide
- Faerie
- Fire
- Ghost
- Glowing
- Green
- Grey
- Halloween
- Invisible
- Island
- Maractite
- Maraquan
- Orange
- Pink
- Pirate
- Plushie
- Purple
- Rainbow
- Red
- Robot
- Royal
- Sketch
- Snow
- Speckled
- Spotted
- Starry
- Stealthy
- Tyrannian
- Valentine
- Water
- White
- Woodland
- Yellow
- Zombie
Special[]
These colours may not be attainable via painting a Petpet, but may be achieved through other means.
Petpet Lab Ray Exclusives[]
Species Exclusives[]
- Airborne (Minitheus)
- Apple (Spyder)
- Dirt (Symol)
- Frozen (Raindorf)
- Geeky (Geb)
- Gingerbread (Dandan)
- Handsome (Horus)
- King Roo (Baby Blu)
- Princess Terrana (Kookith)
- Winged (Kookith)
Other[]
- King Skarl (Grumpy Old King)
- Sand (Qasalan Expellibox)
- Void (The Void Within)
New Colour Polls[]
- In 2002, during the month of May, TNT held a Paint Brush competition and let users vote on which Paint Brush they would like to see next. During the first round of this competition, users could vote for one of three new Paint Brushes: the Baby Paint Brush, the Tartan Paint Brush, or Mystery Island Paint Brush. The Baby Paint Brush received the most votes during this round and was declared the winner on May 15, 2002. During the second round, users could choose between the Tartan Paint Brush, the Mystery Island Paint Brush, and the Pirate Paint Brush. On May 21, 2002, the Pirate Paint Brush was declared the winner after receiving 194,375 votes. Even though the Mystery Island Paint Brush lost both rounds of the Paint Brush competition, it would still be revamped and released on June 27, 2002.
- On Elephante Day, 2017, no new Elephante colours were released. Instead, TNT announced a poll for three new colours: Candy, Marble, and Floral, with Candy being the winner, Marble being the runner-up, and Floral losing the poll.
- On January 19th 2018, another colour poll was released, with Steampunk being the winner, Toy and Origami being runners-up, and despite losing the poll, Burlap (then called Burlap Doll) was released following these colours as well.
- On February 26th, 2019, yet another colour poll was released, with Oil Paint (then called Oil Painting) being the winner, Mosaic being the runner-up, and Porcelain Figure and Wicker both losing the poll.