The most prized diamonds are colorless diamonds, because their beauty depends entirely upon their remarkable optical properties. In such diamonds, all the colors of the rainbow are reflected back to your eye.

While the majority of gem diamonds appear to be colorless, others can contain increasing shades of yellow to brown, some of which are referred to as champagne diamonds. Other diamonds of exceptional color - red, blue, green, pink, and amber - are known as "Fancies."

The color grading scale varies from totally colorless to light color or tinted. The difference between one grade and its neighbor is very subtle. Experts never try to remember color; they use master diamonds of known color for comparison.

Color, is the body of color of the diamond, which ranges from white (D or 0) to yellow or brown (Z or 10).

Color is determined by comparing a known color (master stone) to an unknown.

Master stones are recommended to be
diamonds not cubic zirconias (diamond simulates).

Note: Forsythe Jewelers has 5 master stones (diamonds) on the premises to show you this.