Before making a purchase, considering a Topaz’s color is pivotal to the process of evaluation, clarity comes second. Taste in color is a personal matter, so while the following points are verified facts from the gemstone world they are also up for contention, and in no way are intended to restrict your personal preferences.

Some think that when buying Topaz, as a gem alone or set into jewelry, the darker the color the better the gem: False. If a Topaz is too dark and subdued it’s lifeless, lacking all the qualities for which it is renowned. Go for rich, bright, vivid colors: with clear medium-tones.

Gemstone treatments, wrongly construed as being artificial, mirror the exact same processes that occur in nature. In today’s gem and jewelry industry, irradiation and heat treatments are widely practiced and accepted in the creation of diamonds, sapphires, rubies, amethyst, Topaz...practically every gemstone known. But treatments don’t detract from a gemstone’s value or intrinsic beauty; instead they intensify the gems color, often making them appear better than the untreated varieties.