This chart is our best attempt to translate incredible colors into mundane words ...
| Color Name | Description |
| Amethyst | very true amethyst - purple, with just a touch of red |
| Aquamarine | light blue/green |
| Aurum | very bright, sparkly gold - coated with real gold |
| Azore | light blue |
| Bermuda Blue | blue with yellow |
| Black Diamond | very dark smoke-grey, but also very brilliant |
| Blue Zircon | teal, turquoise blue, deep aqua |
| Burgundy | very dark deep red |
| Capri Blue | rich blue with a little green, sometimes called Caribbean Blue |
| Chalk White | opaque white - no need for foiling |
| Chrysolite | pale green - light green, no yellow - Light Peach plus Light Azore |
| Citrine | true yellow, bright lemon yellow, intense, with a touch of geeen |
| Cobalt | deep royal blue |
| Comet Argent Light (CAL) | very shiny silver, coated with real silver |
| Cosmo Jet | Jet with a Crystal center |
| Crystal | clear, diamond-like |
| Crystal AB | Crystal, with a rainbow-effect coating.
Also known as simply 'Aurora Borealis'.
Under the lights, the 'plain' crystal becomes a diamond with a rainbow of reds, blues, greens, purples, etc. |
| Crystal Transmission | Nearly impossible to describe.
A Crystal stone with the AB effect on the back - responds to light very differently than the standard AB effect.
The foiled version retains the 'rainbow' effect, but in a 'light AB' manner.
The unfoiled version mixes in the background color, and the overall effect is just impossible to describe.
One of our most favorite and most used stones! |
| Dorado | Crystal with a gold finish - similar to Aurum, but with a different sparkle |
| Emerald | 'jewel-tone', rich green - 4-leaf clovers and the Emerald Isle |
| Erinite | light green/moss green, green with a little grey and no yellow |
| Fire Opal | deep yellow with red and orange highlights - the color changes with angle of light, as if the stone was 'on fire' |
| Fuchsia | bright purple/pink, intense hot-pink |
| Garnet | deep red/wine, but lighter than Burgundy |
| Heliotrope | rich royal purple, with blue and a little green and a little red |
| Hyacinth | bright orange - bright red with touch of yellow |
| Jet | brilliant solid black - no need for foil |
| Jet AB | not even close to regular Jet, more like Heliotrope plus Meridian - absolutely gorgeous stone! |
| Jet Hematite | medium grey, Jet with a silvery surface |
| Jet Nut | rich brown with black overtones |
| Jonquil | light/pale yellow |
| Meridian Blue | ocean green and Caribbean blue - color changes with angle of light |
| Montana | navy blue, deep blue, slight touch of green |
| Olivine | green/yellow, olive green |
| Pacific Opal | light green with opalescent highlights |
| Padparadscha | combines pink, orange, and peach - ('salmon') - very pretty stone |
| Peridot | light green, 'spring' green |
| Light Peach | pale, pale 'orangy-pink' - like the lightest part of a ripe peach skin |
| Rose | dark pink, true 'rose' |
| Rose Alabaster | whitish medium pink, solid color - no foil needed |
| Ruby | 'jewel tone', true 'cold' red, 'blood' red - no orange |
| Sage | green with brown/grey overtones - imagine the dried herb |
| Sapphire | 'jewel-tone', medium blue, very rich, almost a royal blue |
| Siam | very bright, very warm red |
| Sun | golden orange - imagine the setting sun |
| Tabac | iridescent Olivine with yellow, mix of gold/brown/green |
| Tanzanite | lavender, palest purple, a little less red than Light Amethyst |
| Topaz | golden brownish yellow |
| Smoked Topaz | golden brown, nearly bronze, deep Topaz but not as yellow |
| Light Colorado Topaz | a paler gold than Topaz |
| Turmaline | medium green, forest green |
| Turquoise | green/blue - solid color, no need for a foil |
| Violet | gorgeous rich medium purple |
| Vitrail Light | pink with blue / lavender with green - depends on the light |
| Vitrail Medium | Olivine with Fuchsia |
| Volcano | iridescent Ruby with blue, very intense - color changes with angle of light |
| White Opal | iridescent white, with red, purple, yellow - very similar to the Opal gemstone |
| White Opal / Sky Blue | sort of like the sky on a nice day - (but not quite as rich or deep as the 'Carolina Blue' skies here in Charlotte) |
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| AB (Aurora Borealis) Effect | an effect added to the basic stone - adds a 'rainbow' of reds, blues, greens, purples, etc. to the base color, depending on the angle of the light |
| Satin Finish | the stone has a light Hematite (grey) coating, giving a 'smoky' effect to the base color |
| Matte Finish | the stone is chemically treated to 'blur' and 'deaden' the base color |
