COLORS OF AMBER

Usually Baltic amber is yellow or bright yellow, but the colors of amber range from white, yellow, brown to red. There is also green/gray amber and less common black amber may be found as well. Amber can be absolutely transparent or absolutely opaque but the best commercial and most valuable amber is transparent. It is not always only one color, but a unique combination of two or more colors, shades and patterns. For this reason, amber has become very attractive, charming, elegant and unique.
As mentioned earlier, tree resins make most of the amber material. These resins are normally clear amber, but amber’s color is affected by other evaporating elements, various admixtures and oxidation, thus we can identify amber in the following colors:

• Honey Amber (transparent): The honey amber color varies within a yellow-brown sepctrum. This color of amber can also be called primary since it is amber in its purest form. Honey brown amber (more brown than yellow) is also known as cognac amber. About 10% of amber are transparent, but this will be more commonly found for smaller pieces. Bigger pieces with this color are very rare and valuable. For a better user experience, we have categorized our amber jewelry into honey amber and cognac amber separately.
• Red or Cherry Amber: the Natural red shade is specially rare. Shades of red amber can vary from orange to dark black. Red Cherry Amber amber is mostly obtained by artificially heating primary or transparent amber by oxidizing it.
• Yellow or Lemon Amber: This is the most common color of amber found today (about 70% of all amber). This amber tends to be more blurry or cloudy, not transparent. This amber is very popular among women of all ages.
• Blue Amber: this is the most rare shade of amber found. This shade is most frequently found in white amber.
• Green Amber: Greenish amber is also rare. Green amber has a very interesting shade, and is normally combined with other amber shades. It can make for very tasteful jewelry.
• Black Amber: This is a frequent color of amber (about 15%). It is attractive because it is completely natural. Usually black amber is made from remains of tree barks and vegetable matter.