Markings on horses are usually distinctive white areas on an otherwise dark base coat color.

The use of markings on British military vehicles expanded and became more sophisticated following the mass production and mechanization of armies in World War II.

a group of hair coat markings and qualities seen in several equine species, including horses, donkeys, and asses.

USAAF unit identification aircraft markings, commonly called "tail markings" after their most frequent location, were numbers, letters, geometric symbols, and colors painted onto the tails (vertical stabilizer fins, rudders and horizontal surfaces), wings, or fuselages of the aircraft of the United States Army Air Forces during the Second World War.

symbols, letters or numbers on the roof of selected police vehicles, fire engines, ambulances, coast guard vehicles, cash-in-transit vans, buses and boats to enable aircraft or CCTV to identify them.