- Crema Marfil – Crema Marfil is one of the most popular marbles in the world, the most sought after marble coming from Spain ad is established as one of the most common and well known beige color marbles in the world. Available in both dark and light beige tones with various grey and black lines, veins and markings there are several grades of quality depending on the quality of the block and how clean the material looks. There are many similar materials coming from Turkey and second quality blocks of Marfil from China, but for the original and best quality Crema Marfil the country of origin must be Spain.
- Dark Emperador – Dark Emperador is a rich dark brown color and a very popular brown marble option. It often has two slightly different shades of brown in the slabs and some white veining and patches of white calcite. There are normally 2 or 3 different quality grades of Dark Emperador with the lower commercial quality having a lot of resin filling applied during processing to lesser quality blocks.
- Light Emperador – Light Emperador is essentially the same material as Dark Emeprador except it is a lighter tone of brown. There is little to no white in Light Emperador and as such you are likely to see a lot less resin filling in the slabs.
- Nero Marquina – Nero Marquina is a classic black marble, jet black with thin white veins and sometimes found with patches and shell/fossil like patterns of white in the material. The polish of good quality Marquina is very high gloss and reflective which does make it easy to be able to see any potential issues with the quality of the polish of tiles and slabs. Be wary of lesser quality blocks and imitations of these material normally coming from China and Turkey.
- Red Alicante – Another classic well known marble from Spain and probably the most common and recognizable red marble in the world. Red Alicante is a light red and has white veining and white patches similar to some block of Dark Emeperador. It normally has two distinct red tones in the blocks and slabs and is very attractive indeed.
