The ApHC only recognizes 7 basic patterns for registration- Solid, Blanket, Blanket with Spots, Roan, Roan Blanket, Roan Blanket with Spots, and Spotted. While this simplifies things for them I want to be more flexible with the ApRR for the Express. So here are a bunch of examples of the registerable colors and patterns with their more common names.

Solid
Okay, solid is solid. Or is it? An Appaloosa being registered under the regular rules MUST have 3 out of 4 Appaloosa characteristics- Color pattern, white sclera, striped hooves and motted skin. I'd like to see these registered as "solid with characteristics", though I will assume all "solid"s sent for reg. have these characteristics.

Dark Bay with characteristics

Black with no characteristics

Blanket
Blankets without spots are often called "snowcap blankets". The ApHC has 5 sizes of blankets- hips, loin and hips, back and hips, body and hips, whole body. In common use hips only is often called "small blanket" and blankets covering body and hips or whole body are called "semi-leopard".

Grulla with snowcap blanket(over back and hips)

Grey with snowcap blanket (over body and hips).

Chestnut with snowcap blanket (over whole body), also known as semi-leopard.

Blanket with Spots
The ApHC has 5 sizes of blankets- hips, loin and hips, back and hips, body and hips, whole body. In common use hips only is often called "small blanket" and blankets covering body and hips or whole body are called "semi-leopard".

Red Roan with small blanket with spots(over hips)

Bay with blanket with spots (over loin and hips)

Palomino with extended blanket (over body and hips), also known as semi-leopard.

Roan
Appaloosa roan is a pattern, not a base color, and progresses over the life of the horse. "Varnish roans" are distinctive that the areas with bone closer to the skin (leg joints, the face) stay dark while the rest of the body lightens.

Bay varnish roan

Roan Blanket
Roan blankets with or without spots are often called "lacey" or "frosty" blankets.

Dark bay with roan blanket(over hips)

Roan Blanket with Spots
Roan blankets with or without spots are often called "lacy" or "frosty" blankets.

Blue roan with roan blanket with spots(over loin and hips)

Bay roan with roan blanket with spots(over back and hips)

Spotted
Spotted horses are more commonly called by 2 different names. What would be registered as "white with spots" is known as "leopard", and a base color with white spots is "snowflake". There are horses with different colored spots then white, as far as I know they are just called "spotted". Large dark spots on chestnuts and palominos, often called "Bend Or spots", do not qualify a horse for Appy registration.

Chestnut Leopard

Black Leopard

Bay few-spot Leopard

Buckskin snowflake over whole body

Dun snowflake over loin and hips

Bay with black spots