A shade is an aspect of colourChoices of colour and the relationships between colours have a huge influence on how a piece or art or design looks and feels and the emotions it provokes. Colour is made up of different aspects. The most useful terms used to describe these aspects are probably: hue, tone, saturation, complementary, analogous, tint, shade, primary and secondary. that has had black added (and is therefore a darker toneThe relative lightness or darkness of a colour. E.g. Light, dark, tint, shade, black, white, grey, shadow, highlight, contrast, monotone, high key, low key. Tone is normally seen as one aspect of colour, concerned with its lightness or darkness; in painting, if different amounts black and white are added to a hue, the results are different tones.) it is the 'opposite' of tintA tint is an aspect of colour that has had white added (and is therefore a lighter tone) it is the 'opposite' of shade..