When most customers look at Diamonds, they tend to believe that
Diamonds are all the same color. It's true! Most don't notice the color differences in them until a Jeweler points it out.
But once you start to look at Color, you'll see, that most Diamonds do have Color, and for the most part, most Diamonds do NOT have GOOD Color!
You see, Diamonds are graded with the alphabet letters D-Z. (There is no A, B or C) D-Z is the Diamond Grading System Chart as devised by G.I.A. (The Gemological Institute of America!) who developed the 4 C's!
The actual Color ranges are broken down into 5 main categories. They are...
D-E-F, which is the Colorless color range.
G-H-I-J, which is the Near Colorless color range.
K-L-M, which is the Faint Yellow color range.
N-O-P-Q-R, which is the Very Light Yellow color range.
S-T-U-V-W-X-Y-Z, which is the Light Yellow color range.
(And also Z+, called Fancy Color, which is every color range beyond the alphabet letter Z!)
D is the best Diamond Color there is on the Planet! D is Pure White, Colorless, and very expensive.
Z, on the other hand, is the lowest Color range there is. Z is a dark Yellow color that's not preferred and doesn't sell!
Interestingly enough, all Diamonds graded as a "Fancy Color" (Z+) are Colored Diamonds like the Hope Diamond. The Hope Diamond is a large Blue Colored Diamond that's very well known and sits in the Smithsonian Institute. It's color grade is beyond Z and it's off the charts.
A Diamond that's a real, true Fancy Canary Yellow Diamond, or a Pink (the rarest color) or Blue Fancy Colored Diamond can truly be 100 times the price of a Pure White Diamond. They're that rare! See... Not all Color in a Diamond is bad!
But sadly, Fancy Color Diamonds are not only very rare, but very expensive. What we are left with instead, are Diamonds with faint colors of Yellow, Brown (Champagne Colored or Chocolate Diamonds), and Gray Colored Diamonds. Those are not so nice, and crazy enough, the market is flooded with them.
So let's go through the Best Color Ranges on the market today... Read on...
