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Summary: Diamonds come in a scale of colors and in general the colorless diamonds are more expensive. Learn more about color scales in diamonds in this free diamond video.
Stephen Wyrick is a certified in the art of diamond grading. He has been working in this field for 37 years now. He makes custom jewelry for clients that love attention to detail.read more
"Now we are going to talk about color. The color that a diamond represents before you see it or when it is polished. We have a category of D, E, and F which would be a classification for a colorless stone. That means there is no white, there is no yellow, red, green or otherwise. It is colorless exactly what these categories represent. It is the highest grade that you can get on a diamond as far as being in a color scale. It also represents a higher price. As we go down the scale we increase in color, the GHI grade is considered white. That is the majority of the stones in this classification, that the market desires. It is the best presentation as far as its assimilation goes and yields top quality in most of the stones that are cut. The next category we go into is a J,K,L. This is starting into the tinge of yellow, which J and K offer some very very nice stones with a slight tinge of yellow and when they are cut properly the prismatic effect often offsets this tinge of yellow. When you get down in to the categories of M, N, O, P you are entering into the fancy colored grade system. The M's are yellow and sometimes become a little smoky yellow and as they go to the N, O and P they become either a little bit more brownish or a little more lemonish or they may have a tinge of blue to go with this that would give them sort of a yellowish greenish look. Those are considered fancy colors in the bottom of this scale."
eHow Article: Diamond Color Scales
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