Hello to all my dedicated readers 
I wasn’t able to write in the last week since it was Rosh Hashanah (the Jewish New Year). Now I’m back and I’m ready for some good diamonds info.
Diamonds come in every color you can imagine from white to black and every color in between – pink, green, yellow, red….
The most expensive diamonds are the red and the blue ones. I will discuss the fancy color diamonds in a future post.
One basic fact: only a small percentage of diamonds in nature are white and white I mean: D – L colors. Most diamonds are light yellow to yellowish, brownish and other colors with many inclusions in them. Most of the diamonds are used for commercial purposes and not for jewelry.
In this post I would like to focus on D – J colors. These colors are the most purchased and desirable colors in the market.
I will separate the D – J colors into three groups:
- D – F colors are basically white diamonds, they what we call colorless diamonds since you can’t find even a slight shade of any other color but white. In D color you can’t find even the slightest hint of color. In F color only a much trained eye (gemologist) can find a very slight shade of color.
If I could do an experiment to prove my point and take ten pairs of D and F colors and let ordinary people to distinguish between them. I bet that most of them wouldn’t be able to – the difference between them is almost unseen. - G – I colors are what we call professionally – near colorless.
Like in the colorless group before the difference between G and I colors is almost unseen.
More then that, if I could repeat the experiment before with F and H colors, I bet that the results would be the same. In my opinion you can start noticing the difference in between colors when looking at I color.
When looking at I color diamond near a G color diamond or even higher (D-F) on a folded white paper, only then you start noticing a slight shade of yellowness and only when the diamond is turned on its back. - J color is the last group. The J color belongs to the faint yellow group of color. I separated it from the other colors since only in J color you can really notice the difference between colors.
One fact about J color: When looking on a round diamond, that is excellently cut and polished and is a J color, it will look one color higher.
Well cut diamonds especially round ones look shiner and whiter then an ordinary cut diamond.
After separating them to groups i want to focus on the last two groups: G – I colors group and the J color group.
As I advised you before: You should decide on a budget and a 4 C’s priority order. I also mentioned in the last post that if you have no budget issues go for the best.
I believe that D – F colors are amazing, but if you have a limited budget, there is no need to go for them, since an H color diamond is not that different from F color diamond – at least in my opinion.
It is becoming a long post; I would prefer to separate it into two posts.
In the next post I will deal with the difference between the G – J colors and will give my recommendations for color choosing in regards to budget and 4 C’s priorities.
See you soon.
