Illustrated Guide

to the natural beauty and value of coloured diamonds

Brown (BR)-brownish (br):

A colour hue resembling chestnuts, chocolate, or freshly dug soil. In the diamond industry, the name brown is used broadly to denote a wide range of colour hues and tones. The lightness for brown diamonds is quite variable and includes a range from very light (smoke) brown to light (champagne) brown, medium (cocoa) brown and dark (coffee) brown through very dark (seal) brown. Saturation in brown diamonds is also variable, giving forth such as bright (golden) brown and deep (cognac) brown.