Yellow Diamond Color Grade

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Yellow diamond color grade. Recommended diamond color for yellow gold rings. If the diamond has more yellow than one but less than the other it will receive a grade in that range. The diamond color scale used for white diamonds goes from d to z. The best color for a round cut diamond on a yellow gold ring.

A unique richly colored diamond or a white colorless diamond. The scale starts at fancy light yellow and moves toward fancy vivid yellow as the saturation of color intensifies. As the letter is closer to z it means that the diamond is less colorless and starts to be a bit yellowish in tone a pale yellow shade. When color grading is done in the mounting the grade is expressed as an estimated color grade and commonly as a range of color.

Diamond color is the hue of a diamond based on the gia diamond color scale which grades the diamond s color on a spectrum of d colorless to z light yellow hue the absence of color is what determines both its grade and value as well as has a significant impact on its appearance diamond color grade is typically determined with the diamond face down and the culet facing up. The vast majority of untrained observers and many gemologists cannot distinguish a color grade from the one just above or below unless the diamonds are compared side by side in a. In fact if you drop down from a j to a k you can really save some dough. Yellow gold makes slight amounts of yellow in a diamond less obvious while white gold or platinum mountings make the color in yellow diamonds more apparent.

At this point it depends on which you and the wearer find more appealing. This degrades the diamond and their prices decrease as you get closer to z. The yellow color of the gold is absorbed into the diamond s color so any grade higher than a k will look slightly yellowish anyway. I know that people worry a lot that a k colored diamond will show a slight hint of color when it is mounted on the ring.

In general for yellow gold rings any diamond within the j l color range will look perfectly fine. Grading mounted diamonds involves holding the mounted diamonds table close to the table facet of the master stone and visually comparing the diamond color under the same color conditions as unmounted diamond grading. Diamond color is graded by evaluating the body color of the diamond on a pure white background face down. The simplified scale below represents how a fancy yellow diamond would be graded.

All other diamond shapes. Gemologists will compare the diamond to master stones or a gia verified set of cubic zirconia with grade color shading.