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Color Diamonds Yellow | Fancy Color Diamonds Yellow
“Yellow will literally light up the room!»
“The yellow of the egg“ (= the best)
“Yellow like the sun & smileys“
Fancy Color Yellow Diamonds
What is a Fancy Color Yellow Diamond? What is a yellow diamond?
What makes yellow diamonds so unique? What are the advantages of yellow Diamonds? Why are yellow diamonds so popular?
How are yellow diamonds created? What is the chemical composition of yellow diamonds? Why should I buy a yellow diamond? Are yellow diamonds expensive? How are prices determined for yellow diamonds?
- Sunny:
Yellow is the color of the sun. It radiates particularly intensively and strikingly. - Warmth, good mood (smileys)
- Cheerful & bright
- Development, desire for freedom, curiosity, spontaneity, openness, expectation, creativity and cheerfulness
- Yellow is ideal against depressive moods
- Increases concentration
- As a particularly lively color, it is considered fun, playful and cheerful
- In Japan, on the other hand, yellow stands for courage
- Popularity
- most popular color among all “Fancy Color” diamonds
- Collections e.g. from Tiffany & Co. have made “Yellow” popular
- Rarity
- Second most common diamond color (after brown 80%)
- Color Cause
- Nitrogen / Nit rogen (N) atoms → replace carbon atoms in the crystal lattice
-> selective blue light will absorb + selective yellow will transmit
- Nitrogen / Nit rogen (N) atoms → replace carbon atoms in the crystal lattice
- Common Secondary Colors:
- orange-yellow
- brownish-yellow
- greenish-yellow
- Price range Mine diamonds
- Affordable – Intermediary
-> quite popular, often serve as a gateway to the universe of fantasy colors
-> large size, high purity and color saturation → much higher prices
- Affordable – Intermediary
- Most valuable / most expensive =
- pure yellow (without secondary colors)
-> very high color intensity and deep yellow - Fancy Intense Yellow
- Fancy Deep Yellow
- Fancy Vivid Yellow
- “Canary Diamond” / “Canary Yellow”
= pure yellow diamonds with strong hue (pure intense yellow)
intense, rich canary yellow color of the canaries
…not a proper classification term, but they are often marketed that way.
- pure yellow (without secondary colors)
Classification
Yellow diamonds are considered “fancy” (“fancy color”) when a stone shows more color than the “Z” color scale within the “white diamond” D-Z color scale.
Classification
- Fancy Light Yellow
- Fancy Yellow
- Fancy Intense Yellow
- Fancy Dark Yellow
- Fancy Deep Yellow
- Fancy Vivid Yellow
Yellow diamonds that show less color than “Z” but more color than diamonds graded “white diamonds” D-J are called Faint through Light Yellow :
| K-M | Faint Yellow | Weak yellow |
| N-R | Very Light Yellow | Very bright yellow |
| S-Z | Light Yellow | Light yellow |
Famous Yellow Diamonds
Large yellow diamonds have made headlines with the prices achieved at auction:
- October 2011: “The Vivid Yellow” 32.77 carat Christie’s → $6.6 million
- November 2011: Pearshaped “Sun Drop” 110.03 carats → $12.3 million