Illustrated Guide

to the natural beauty and value of coloured diamonds

Green (G)-greenish (g):

A perceived colour resembling the peel of an unripe lime or a healthy grass lawn or the gemstone emerald. Green is spoken of as being a cool colour when tinged with blue and a warm colour when tinged with yellow. The range of colour tone for green diamonds is variable in both lightness and saturation, resulting in pale (lettuce) green, bright (emerald) green, dull (laurel) green, and deep (bottle) green colours. The majority of green diamonds occur in pale or dull tones with light through dark lightness and weak through moderate saturation.