Warmth without weight. Light brown sits at the quiet end of the champagne range, more color than a white stone and less than a cognac. In yellow gold it settles into the metal. In white gold it reads as a decision rather than an accident.

Named for the way its facets open from a central point. Domed above, flat below, no pavilion and no culet. Cut since the sixteenth century and never about brilliance- it glows rather than flashes. The flat base gives it a broad face for its weight, and the shallow depth lets you see into the stone rather than off it.