Tints and shades

“Tint” redirects here. For other uses, see tint (disambiguation)

In color theory, a tint is the mixture of a color with white (also called a pastel color) , and a shade is the mixture of a color with black. Mixing with white increases lightness, while mixing with black reduces it. Mixing with any neutral color, including black and white, reduces chroma or colorfulness, leaving hue unchanged.

Although in painting, “shade” refers to mixtures of colors with black, “shade” as often used colloquially refers to any variation of a color, whether light or dark, colorful or not.

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