Colorless Diamonds

Colorless diamonds are the ones that would fall in the GIA scale at the letters of D, E & F.  Colorless diamonds are some of the most rare with less than 1% of the diamonds that make it out of the earth being D or E. What constitutes colorless diamond however is not so much how that stone looks face up in a ring. Of course the diamond is going to be "white", but what really makes a diamond colorless is how it looks when it's observed face down against a flat white background. Against the flat white background the still will still be colorless. Here are the letters D, E and F.

As we progress further on in this section of "color" I'll be showing you some comparisons between the "D" next to other letters on the color scale.