Diamonds just do not come in colorless or white, but they also have all the colors of nature in them, and those diamonds with color are fancy color diamonds.
Fancy-color diamonds come in all the colors possibly seen by us. The real fancy color grading starts for a diamond after the Z color of the gem diamonds when the color shade becomes much more dominant. Unlike regular colorless to light shade diamonds, which are color graded on the scale of D to Z, where value decreases as the shade became more visible and strong going towards the color grade Z, fancy color diamonds are appreciated if the color is more pure, vivid, and intense.
Very specific methods are used to understand and describe the color of any loose natural colored diamond; also, naming a color when many hues are visible with the fluorescence is a tricky job.
Then comes getting the photographs, as most of the time the diamonds seen in a picture are quite different from what we see in person, so photos should be very close to the exact color of the gem.
The color grading requires a lot of expertise as there are numerous colors and then the combinations of the colors; secondly, there are also diamonds like the chameleon diamonds, which change the color in different lighting and angles.
Now most of the diamonds come with a mix of colors and have a main dominating color with secondary colors, which can be more than one, and are mentioned with the main color name of the diamond, like brown, yellow, or green, gray, yellow. The main dominating color comes always at the last, but if the intensity of the secondary colors is very light, then they are mentioned, like pinkish, yellowish, bluish, or grayish, and the main color comes as the last color mentioned on the card or certificate.
Lets take an example of fancy pink color in diamonds starting from pure pink color (now pink itself is not an individual color as it is formed by a mix of colors red and white), which will be graded as fancy pink with no other color mentioned in combination on the certificate. Now we talk about the combination of the colors in a pink diamond, so here pink can even be a primary color, a secondary color, or a stone may just have a hue of pink in it, so the color combinations can form like purplish pink, in which the main color is pink with a touch of purple or blue; so as come other combinations like brownish pink, greyish pink, orangy pink.
The other grading options in the context of a pink diamond can be "pink brown," in which brown is the dominant color with pink remaining the secondary color with lesser saturation, but the intensity of the second color is fairly visible; otherwise, it would have been mentioned like pinkish brown instead of pink brown. When the grade is described as "brown pink," which depicts that the main color in the diamond is pink, turning around the value on a different side from its former counterpart.
Mines or origin also determines uniqueness in shade, as Canadian diamonds will have certain types of traits in color, as in argyle pink diamonds.
The answer for it is: Though there are numerous colors formed in the naturally occurring earth-mined diamonds. As we went into the described colors in certificates from the top well-known labs like HRD, GIA, GRS, and IGI grading fancy color diamonds, we came across generally 150-2250 types of descripted color combinations, but even when we see 2 diamonds given the same color certification when placed together, we will find minor to moderate differences in the shades depending on intensity and other factors, so there are endless colors in fancy diamonds and each natural stone is unique from the other.
The intensities affect the appearing color, like a vivid yellow diamond will be quite different from a fancy light yellow rock or fancy yellow, or a fancy light blue diamond will be different from a deep or dark blue, and so on, like an intense orange diamond is another one.
Further, the cut type, size, and shape also affect the appearing color due to certain reflections, like an emerald cut diamond will hold less color compared to a cushion, and if the diamond is very thin cut, then too the color will appear less in them.
In diamond certificates, before mentioning any color of the diamond, the intensity is given, which is divided into 9 levels, starting from faint to vivid, in which faint is the least color hue present and less in value for color, and vivid is known to be the best and ideal color saturation a diamond can have. The rest of the intensities are very light, light, fancy light, fancy, fancy deep, and fancy intense. So as the intensity changes of the diamond, so does the look of the diamond with price, like fancy brown and faint brown will be two different stones in terms of color, so is natural fancy light green and intense green, and then how rare a diamond is decides its value and hence affects the demand and most importantly the price.
There are also some set rules and traditions followed when grading color intensity to any diamonds, and all intensity levels are not imparted to every color, like there are no intense gray or vivid gray, and the same with brown diamonds. Also, there is no light yellow instead that will be graded as a Y-Z color diamond, and a red diamond is only fancy red; no intensity is given for it, and that is the most expensive and rarest diamond color.
The white diamonds are graded as alphabet letters describing the intensifying shade on a scale of D to Z, with D, E remaining as colorless, followed by F, G, and H as white, and then off whites. I, J, and K then start the shades either as yellowish, brownish, or pinkish, which deepens as the grade goes down from the top top TT light shade of these hues to light, and the lower colors from (O-P), (Q-R), (S-T), (U-V), (W-X) (Y-Z) are grouped together so a light yellow will be a Y-Z color or may be W-X, but the same does not apply with blue, pink, or green if they are light. They are given as very light pink or fancy light pink as they are very rare and have a lot of value, and also traditionally this has been done by all the laboratories.
Fancy-colored diamonds are significantly rarer than their colorless counterparts and facinate more than the white, near-white ones. Most color diamonds are usually more expensive than the colorless ones, but some can be cheaper than those. The characteristics determining the cost of any fancy diamond are mainly its color or color combinations, followed by clarity/iinclusions, shape, cut/ppolish, brilliance, weight/ssize and origin.
Color: The color is the pioneer character to determine the price of any fancy color diamond; the more scarce the color or color combination, the more rare the gem becomes, like a blue or pink color shade, which is very rare to find; the overtones and their intensities affect the value further. The diamond with identical color in the certificate may vary a lot in rates depending on color saturation and intensities accentuated with other specifications determining values. A fancy, intense pink diamond will be more expensive than a fancy pink, and a vivid pink will be even more expensive than the former. The color combinations that are more rare and appealing are more costly. The shine, shape, cut, etc. affect the value of a same-color stone.
Clarity: More the diamonds will have flaws, less appealing they will be, and will start to look dirty with an increase in inclusions. Diamonds are graded for inclusions on grades starting with Flawless (F), Internally Flawless (IF), with VVS-VVS as the best clean ones, the Si, and then I1 - 2 - 3, so the clean stones are always preferred and valued. Other than that, if in an I2-II3 diamond the inclusion is a white patch or a black inclusion on the center and top of the table, then such stone becomes a rejection. Also, open cracks, which can be felt by a nail on the surface, are worst for any finished cut and polished gemstone and make the stone useless.
Shape: Diamonds do come in various shapes, but the most popular and most popular is a round brilliant cut or a princess and cushion, and less desired and less used are marquise or pear, so shape and cut even signify the pricing.
Luster: Diamonds are all about shine and glitter; if the stone is dull, then what's the significance of the stone being a diamond? So this is very important with color, clarity, and transparency; a diamond should have good firing and light in them, which makes them shiny and attracts higher rates and demand.
Treatment: Only an untreated naturally mined fancy-colored diamond will fetch a high rate. While buying a fancy diamond, it should be ascertained that the stone is not treated to enhance its color, like irradiation, an irradiated diamond, or an HPHT stone.
Jewel Fields is an authentic and top-trusted supplier of genuine loose cut and polished fancy color diamond-certified and loose parcels of non-certified diamonds untreated unless mentioned. All our fancy colored diamond parcels are scan tested with the latest CVD testers for confirming them to be natural-color diamonds.
Certificates can be made on demand by IGI, GIA, and GJEPC (the Gem and Jewelry Promotion Council of India) for authentication of the stones to confirm their naturality and if any HPHT irradiation treatments are done (irradiated diamonds are generally deep blue or deep red), but this usually never happens as we take the utmost care while getting any diamonds, so buy natural-color diamonds at Jewelfields with full confidence.
All fancy diamonds usually come as wholesale lots/parcels with generally 5–10 carats of diamonds, minimum to hundreds of carats in a single parcel, and are sold as is.
All shapes, cuts, and sizes are available on availability. Round brilliant cut and fancy shapes like princess cut, marquis, oval shaped, cushion, pear, asscher, and heart cut. The cutting patterns of rose cuts, diamond briolettes in white, as well as fancy colors and other fancy-shaped diamonds are available.
Diamond pairs, diamond layouts for jewelry in fancy color and white diamonds, and calibrated diamond parcels/lots for making fancy color diamond jewelry pieces.
As a wholesaler, we work in all sizes, generally up to 2 carats, as fancy naturally colored diamond pointers and fancy colored melee diamonds in lots.
We work for diamond suppliers, manufacturers, loose diamond dealers, and some retailers making fancy-color diamond jewelry.
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