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.

Kite, hexagon, shield, lozenge, bullet, trilliant. Angular outlines we pushed into the mainstream in 2014, when the trade still cut almost everything round. A straight edge behaves differently than a curve- it sits flush against another stone, holds a line in a cluster, and gives a designer geometry to build on rather than work around.