Color Names

Orkhide Shade

Darkness under orchids, or just a gloomy corner of a greenhouse.

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Orkhide Shade is a cool grey, close to teal.

It can be described as cool, muted, greyish and dusty.

Set in white, because white reads best on it.

Orkhide Shade

Tint, shade and tone

In color theory, a tint is a mixture of a color with white, which increases lightness, while a shade is a mixture with black, which increases darkness. A tone is produced either by mixing a color with gray, or by both tinting and shading. Mixing a color with any neutral color reduces the chroma, or colorfulness, while the perceived hue can be affected slightly.

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shade

Noun

  1. Darkness where light, particularly sunlight, is blocked.
  2. Something that blocks light, particularly in a window.

Verb

  1. To shield (someone or something) from light.
  2. To shield oneself from light.
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