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Now we are going to talk about color. The color that a diamond represents before you
see it or when it is polished. We have a category of D, E, and F which would be a classification
for a colorless stone. That means there is no white, there is no yellow, red, green or
otherwise. It is colorless exactly what these categories represent. It is the highest grade
that you can get on a diamond as far as being in a color scale. It also represents a higher
price. As we go down the scale we increase in color, the GHI grade is considered white.
That is the majority of the stones in this classification, that the market desires. It
is the best presentation as far as its assimilation goes and yields top quality in most of the
stones that are cut. The next category we go into is a J,K,L. This is starting into
the tinge of yellow, which J and K offer some very very nice stones with a slight tinge
of yellow and when they are cut properly the prismatic effect often offsets this tinge
of yellow. When you get down in to the categories of M, N, O, P you are entering into the fancy
colored grade system. The M's are yellow and sometimes become a little smoky yellow and
as they go to the N, O and P they become either a little bit more brownish or a little more
lemonish or they may have a tinge of blue to go with this that would give them sort
of a yellowish greenish look. Those are considered fancy colors in the bottom of this scale.