Shade (disambiguation)

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Shade commonly refers to the shadow cast when something obscures light (specifically sunlight outdoors, as in the shade of a tree). It can also mean:

• A shade, a mixture of a color with black
• Shading, a process used in art and graphic design
• Shade (mythology), mythological creatures - hence (poetic) any spirit of the dead
• Price shading, variable pricing of a product to different consumers
• Sunglasses, often referred to as shades, eye protection wear
• WindowShade, a control panel in Mac OS 7.5
• A type of versatile infantry unit found in Shattered Galaxy
• Shade Gap, Pennsylvania, a tiny borough in Pennsylvania

[edit] Creative arts

• Shade (film), a 2003 crime film directed by Damian Nieman, starring Sylvester Stallone, Melanie Griffith, Gabriel Byrne, Hal Holbrook & Thandie Newton
• Shade (2006 film), starring Kimberly Williams and Patrick Dempsey
• Shade (interactive fiction), a game by Andrew Plotkin
• Shade (novel), by Neil Jordan
• Shade (Murray Head album), a 1983 album by Murray Head
• Shade's Children, a science-fiction novel
• "Shades (story)", a short story by Bolesław Prus
• Shades (music single), a music single accompanying commercials for Crown Paints, from 1985
• Shade (Silverchair song), a single by Silverchair
• Shades (album), by musician J. J. Cale
• Shade - Disc two of Mike Oldfield's Light & Shade album
• Shades of Yale, Yale University's youngest co-ed a cappella group
• Shade: Wrath of Angels, a 2004 Computer and XBOX game developed by Black Element Software

[edit] Characters in fiction

• Shade - The shadow spirit from Beyond Oasis
• Shade (Dungeons & Dragons), creatures in the role-playing game Dungeons & Dragons
• Shade (Sonic the Hedgehog), a new character from the series who appears in Sonic Chronicles
• One of the elemental spirits (Mana) in the Seiken Densetsu series
• A creature from the Inheritance Cycle by Christopher Paolini
• Two characters in DC Comics' titles:

• Shade (comics), an ambiguous villain in the DC universe
• Shade, the Changing Man, a character in the Vertigo Comics imprint

• Hazel Shade and John Shade, fictional characters from Pale Fire
• Shade, an enemy found in both F.E.A.R. Perseus Mandate and F.E.A.R. Extraction Point

[edit] Surnames

• Absalom Shade, a Canadian businessman
• Joseph Shade, a British actor
• Will Shade, a musician