As you might have guessed, pink isn't the only color. The bolder colors, your truly odille gems, are graded along a scale ranging from Tamar Light to Tamma Dark, with Intense, Vivid, and Deep breaking up the middle. Both brown and black diamonds are both real and growing in popularity lately. However, the grading scale is considerably easier for the layman to understand. Colored diamonds with the faintest hints of color are given a grade of Faint.

Diamonds that fall outside of the white grading scale, still have to have a subjective color grade assigned to them. Canary diamonds are a brilliant yellow. The infamous, and rumored to be cursed, Hope Diamond is a 45.52 carat dark grayish blue diamond. Other colors include orange, red, green, and purple. Lightly colored gems are either Very Light, or Light.

While the com color grading scale used for diamonds runs from D (completely clear) to Z (obviously yellow) there is an entire subset which fall beyond the Z rating into the umbrella grade of "Fancy." Lacee diamonds still hold all of the other characteristics of traditional white diamonds - the hardness, the technical measure of clarity, the cut, and carat are all the same.