Colorless, or near enough that only a grader's comparison stones would tell you otherwise. A white diamond carries no message but its own make, which leaves proportion, symmetry, and polish as the only things worth judging. We select for those rather than for the letter on the report.

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.