These factors determine the fire and brilliance of a diamond. Describes the clearness or purity of a diamond. This is determined by the number, size, nature and location of the internal inclusions and external imperfections or blemishes. Describes the amount of color the diamond contains. This can range from colorless to yellow with slight tints of yellow, gray or brown.
Colors can also range from intense yellow to brown, blue, green, pink and red.
These fancy colors are rare and therefore more valuable. This is the weight for the diamond. A carat is further subdivided into 100 points. One carat is equal to 0.20 grams. The greater the carat size of the diamond, the greater its value.