The Four C's: Color |
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Normal Color Range The best color for a diamond is no color at all. A totally colorless diamond allows light to pass through it easily, resulting in the light being dispersed as the color of the rainbow. Colors are graded totally colorless to light yellow. The differences from one grade to the other are very subtle and it takes a trained eye and years of experience to color grade a diamond. |
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| Colored Diamonds Only one in every 10,000 diamonds possesses natural color and is referred to as a fancy color diamond. Color intensity, the deepness or richness of color, is the most important consideration when purchasing a fancy color diamond. The more intense the color, the rarer and more valuable the diamond will be. Any naturally colored diamond with a noticeable depth of bodycolor is considered to be rare. Red and green are the rarest fancy colors, followed by purple, violet, orange, blue, and pink. Yellow and greenish yellow diamonds are more common. While white, black, and gray are not, strictly speaking, spectral colors, they are also considered fancies. In the GIA color grading system, fancy color grades are described as faint, very light, light, fancy light, fancy, fancy intense, and fancy dark. |
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