Lovely Diamond Hues
By Karl Lee
Color, or lack of it, is an especially important characteristic when it comes to choosing diamonds. To denote the level of color, diamonds are given letter grades, starting with the letter D for a flawless, colorless diamond. When diamonds started being graded for color with this scale then, it was decided to start with D to leave room for the extremely rare possibility that a diamond more flawless than flawless would be found and be graded C, B or A. Till date, such a flawless diamond has not been found yet.
The color grades of D, E and F are the rarest and most colorless. Only an expert gemologist can distinguish the difference in their color. The grades G-J are called near colorless. Though grades I-J is not as colorless as grades G-H, these grades are also of an excellent value. The difference between grades D-F and grades G-H is only visible when the diamonds of these two categories are compared side by side.
As the amount of color in white diamonds increased, the color grades move up the scale to Z. A white diamond graded Z should not be confused with canary or colored diamonds. Colored diamonds are graded differently than white diamonds and are also highly prized among collectors. Hope Diamond, being one of the most famous diamonds of all time, is a rich blue color. A red diamond is the rarest of all colored diamonds. Colored diamonds are especially beautiful when combined with white diamonds within a jewelry piece.
How do colored diamonds get their color? The colors come from impurities between the cells of the crystals, or structural defects. Diamonds can come in many different colors, though the colors are mainly limited to steel gray, white, blue, yellow, orange, red, green, pink, purple, brown, and black.
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