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Color - Canadian Star Diamond Information
Gem grade diamonds vary in shade from colorless to yellow. Color as it is utilized in reference to diamonds actually refers to the ‘lack of’ color as being optimal.
Color is the natural body color visible in the diamond and determined solely by nature. Generally speaking the closer a diamond is to being colorless the more beautiful and subsequently more valuable it is.
To determine the correct color, diamonds are compared to an internationally accepted master set of stones, the color of which ranges from “D”, or colorless, down the alphabet to “Z”, the most yellow in color.
Canadian Star diamonds are graded between “D” and “J” color and are near colorless. We do not sell any diamonds that fall below this color grade.
| IGI | Descriptive | ||
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Colorless | D | Exceptional White+ |
| E | Exceptional White | ||
| F | Rare White+ | ||
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Near Colorless | G | Rare White |
| H | White | ||
| I | Slightly Tinted White | ||
| J | |||
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Faint Yellow | K | Tinted White |
| L | |||
| M | Tinted | ||
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Very Light Yellow | N | |
| O | |||
| P | |||
| Q | |||
| R | |||
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Light Yellow | S | |
| T | |||
| Yellow | U | ||
| V W X Y Z |
D: Colorless or icy winter white in appearance. This is the highest color grade which is
rarest and most expensive.
E: Colorless with only miniscule traces of color detectable. Considered rare and valuable.
F: Colorless with only slight trace of color detectable. Considered to be rare and of
very high quality.
G-H: Near colorless. Color detectable only through comparative with other diamonds.
Very high quality and excellent value
I-J: Near colorless. Slightly detected color, considered less rare and generally good value
