All the colors of the rainbow!
Colored diamonds are in the spotlight. They’re routinely breaking records at auction houses. They make headlines when set in celebrity engagement rings. And they’re gemological marvels of the rarest order.Seen in practically every color of the rainbow, colored diamonds are far rarer than diamonds in the D-to-Z color range. Only one out of 10,000 carats of fashioned diamonds displays fancy color, and a diamond’s chances of displaying intense color are even less – one in 25,000. Browns and yellows are the most common fancy colors. Red, green, purple and orange are the rarest.GIA® issued its first origin-of-color reports for colored diamonds in 1956. Backed by decades of research and the examination of thousands of colored diamonds, the GIA Colored Diamond Grading System has become the standard for evaluating these extremely rare gems. Current GIA Colored Diamond Grading Reports describe color grades using these terms: Faint, Very Light, Light, Fancy Light, Fancy, Fancy Dark, Fancy Intense, Fancy Deep and Fancy Vivid. Virtually every colored diamond sold at major auction houses has been graded by GIA.
