Body/Limbs:
The Bengal is a medium to large (females are smaller) muscular, solid cat with medium length legs that are slightly longer in the back, with large round feet and prominent knuckles.
The tail is thick, medium length and low set, adding balance to the cat. It should taper at the end and have a rounded tip.

Head/Face:
The shape of the head is a broad modified wedge with rounded contours that is longer than it is wide. It should be slightly smaller in proportion to body with small to medium sized, reletavely short ears with a wide base and rounded tops. They should be set as much on the side of the head as the top of head and should point forward in the profile view.
Eyes should be oval to round, large in size and set wide apart back into the face enhancing the wild appearance and expressive nocturnal look. The Bengal eye color is independent of its coat color except in the lynx points.
The chin is strong and aligns with the tip of the nose in profile.
The muzzle is full and broad with large prominent whisker pads and high pronounced cheekbones.
The nose is large and wide with slightly puffy nose leather. The curve of the forehead should flow into the bridge of the nose with no break. The line of the bridge extends to the nose tip, making a very slight to almost straight, concave curve.

Coat and Markings:
The short and dense coat of the Bengal has a uniquely soft and silky feel. It may be glittered with an iridescent sheen to each hair: a trait that is unique to the Bengal cat. The coat pattern is either spotted or marbled.

The Spotted Bengal is most associated with the "leopard look" as the coat features clearly discernible spots and rosettes. The spots are random or horizontally aligned and can be large or small and often include two toned rosettes. Rosetted spots may be paw print, arrowhead, doughnut or half-doughnut in shape.

The Marbled Bengal has a swirling pattern that appears as random swirls or thick diagonal and horizontal lines flowing across the coat of the cat.
The legs and tail of the Bengal are usually striped, but it is preferred that they have some spotting.
The undersides should be virtually white and the belly must be spotted!
Facial markings include a strong bold chin strap, mascara markings and light spectacles encircling the eyes.

Colours: 

The Brown/Black Bengal is the most popular colour and ranges from cool grey to vibrant shades of golden, bronze, copper or mahogany with spots or marbling ranging from rich browns to intense black. The eyes of the brown bengal should be brown, green or hazel, and the tip of the tail must be black. On young kittens the paw pads are often a dark brick red, but by the time they are adults, the paw pads should be black. The nose leather should always be brick red.

The Chocolate or Cinnamon Bengal is similar to the Brown/Black Bengal except that there is no black in the coat, only a dark brown on the Chocolate (also called sorrel) or a mid brown on the Cinnamon (also called tawny). The tip of the tail is always a chocolate or mid brown.

Currently Chocolate and Cinnamon Bengals do not qualify for championship status with either the GCCF or TICA but they can be shown under ‘new traits’ with TICA.
Bengals also come in a range of "snow" colours that indicates Siamese and Burmese ancestry:

The Seal Lynx Point Bengal has a pale ivory background with a pattern of spots or marbling in any shade of brown. The head and feet are visibly darker in kittens but should have very little difference in colour to the background as an adult. The eyes are a strong clear blue colour.

GCCF call this cat a Blue Eyed Snow. They call any snow Bengal that doesn't’t have blue eyes an AOC snow (Any Other eye-Colour). However, genetically there are two types of AOC snow. TICA recognise the difference between the two types, and call them the Seal Mink and the Seal Sepia.

The Seal Mink Bengal is genetically a mix of the Seal Lynx Point and the Seal Sepia and has mid coloured markings (mink brown) with turquoise eyes.

The Seal Sepia Bengal also has an ivory background but with much darker markings (sepia brown) and with either brown, green or hazel eyes. The markings on the kittens are usually visible at birth.

All snows should have brick red paw pads and nose leather, and the tip of the tail should be black.

The Silver Bengal has a grey to nearly white background with dark grey to black patterns. When rosetted, the centre of each spot is a mid grey. There should not be any signs of tarnishing (brown) within the coat colour and the tail tip should always be black. The eyes are often a pale green.

The Blue Bengal is a more recent colour development and is a dilute version of the brown gene. The background colour should be off-white/ivory with peachy undertones. The markings should be clearly defined blue and the tail tip should be dark grey.
Currently Blue Bengals do not qualify for championship status with either the GCCF or TICA though they can be shown under ‘new traits’ with TICA.

Colours can be mixed and you can have snow silvers, blue silvers, chocolate silvers, cinnamon silvers, chocolate snows, cinnamon snows, blue snows, lilacs (chocolate+blue) or fawns (cinnamon + blue). You would only be aware of such mixes if you knew the genetics of the cat.