Faint Brown is the lightest brown notation GIA prints beside a D-to-Z colour letter, on these pages mostly K to N. It is the grade most shoppers mean by “light champagne”. It is a different grade from Very Light Brown and Light Brown, which sit deeper on the same scale, and none of the three is a fancy grade: a stone graded Fancy Light Brown or Fancy Brown has no colour letter at all and is priced as a coloured diamond.
Faint Brown is a hue notation GIA prints beside a K-to-Z color grade, not a fancy grade. What it means, why it cuts the price, how the scales differ.
What a brown notation takes off a champagne diamond's price, where the discount is widest by carat weight, and how the two savings figures differ.
Champagne, fancy brown and chocolate diamonds are three products. How the D-to-Z brown notation discounts a stone, and why the fancy browns here cost less.