COLOR: DISCOVER PURE, UNWAVERING BELIEF

“YOUR LEVEL OF BELIEF IN YOURSELF WILL INEVITABLY MANIFEST ITSELF IN WHATEVER YOU DO.”

—LES BROWN, MOTIVATIONAL SPEAKER

In nature, diamonds are found in a wide range of colors. We most often think of them being somewhere in the range between pure white (technically called colorless or transparent) and slightly yellow, but diamonds are also found in “fancy” colors, such as blues, greens, pinks, and even reds. A diamond acts like a prism, dividing light into the colors of the spectrum and then reflecting that light as colorful flashes called “fire.”

A diamond’s color is graded using a scale from D (colorless or pure white) to Z (light yellow). Like light passing through a clear glass window, more light ...

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