Diamond Color 101 – What You Need To Know About The Color Of A Diamond
A diamond is a highly precious stone and is one of the hardest known natural materials in the world.
Many high profile celebrities, royalties and ultra rich people buy diamonds both for adornment and investments. When in time of unforeseen financial problems, diamonds can be easily sold for a high amount.
The price of a diamond is generally based on 4 Cs Color, Carat, Clarity and Cut. Among these four, the color may be the hardest to decide because there is a wide array of diamond colors to choose from.
There are a variety of colors of diamonds found in the market today. There pink, yellow, blue, brown, red and many other colors. In fact due to structural shifting and a variety of impurities, many other tints of diamonds exist.
To the jewelers, diamonds have color grading to determine the price of the stone. Grades D-E-F generally refers to the colorless type. Diamonds having these grades are usually the more expensive types and very difficult to find because of their rarity.
Grade G-H-I-J are the nearly colorless types and maybe relatively expensive. ...