Shade

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Shade, Shades or Shading may refer to:

• Shade (color), a mixture of a color with black (often generalized as any variety of a color)
• Shade (shadow), the blocking of sunlight
• Shading, a process used in art and graphic design

Entertainment

Film, literature, games

• Shade (novel), by Neil Jordan
• Shade (film), a 2003 crime film directed by Damian Nieman
• Shades (1999 film), a 1999 film by Erik Van Looy
• The Shade (1998 film), a 1998 film by Raphael Nadjari
• Shade (2006 film), starring Kimberly Williams and Patrick Dempsey
• Shade (interactive fiction), a 2000 game by Andrew Plotkin
• Shade: Wrath of Angels, a 2004 Computer and Xbox game developed by Black Element Software
• Shades series, a book series by Rob Hood
• Shades (novel), a 1993 book by Marguerite Poland
• “Shades” (story), an 1885 short story by Bolesław Prus
• Shades (TV series), a British television series
• Shades, a MUD game that existed in the 1980s

Music

• Shade (Murray Head album), a 1983 album by Murray Head
• Shade (Holly Cole album), 2003
• Shade, disc two of Mike Oldfield's Light & Shade album
• “Shade” (Silverchair song), a 1995 single by Silverchair
• “Shade”, a song by The Tossers from Agony, 2007
• “Shade”, a song by Nadia Oh from Colours, 2011
• Shades (band), an American R&B group
  • Shades (Shades album), the group's eponymous album
• Shades (Andrew Hill album), 1988
• Shades 1968–1998, a Deep Purple compilation album
• Shades (Keith Jarrett album), 1975
• Shades (J.J. Cale album), 1981
• Shades (Yellowjackets album), 1986
• “Shades” (song), a music single accompanying commercials for Crown Paints, from 1985
• "Shades", a 1987 song from Blah Blah Blah by Iggy Pop

Characters in fiction

• Shade (Silverwing character), the main character in Kenneth Oppel's Silverwing
• Shade, the shadow spirit from Beyond Oasis
• Shade (Dungeons & Dragons), creatures in the role-playing game Dungeons & Dragons
• Shade, one of the eight Mana spirits In the Mana series, representing the element of darkness
• Shade (Sonic the Hedgehog), a new character from the series who appears in Sonic Chronicles
• 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

People with surname Shade

• Absalom Shade (c. 1793–1862), a Canadian businessman
• Will Shade (1898–1966), a musician

Places

In the United States

• Shade, Kentucky
• Shade, Missouri
• Shade, Ohio
• Shade Gap, Pennsylvania, a borough in Pennsylvania
• Shade Township, Somerset County, Pennsylvania, a township in Pennsylvania

Other uses

• Shade (mythology), mythological creatures - hence (poetic) any spirit of the dead
• Shade 3D, a Japanese 3D computer graphics software program
• Price shading, variable pricing of a product to different consumers
• Shade number, a rating of the protection offered by welding helmets
• WindowShade, a control panel in Mac OS 7.5
• Window shade, a type of window covering
• The Shades, a part of the twin-city Ankh-Morpork from the Discworld novels.
• Shades, another term for sunglasses

See also

• All pages beginning with "shade"
• All pages beginning with "shading"
• All pages with a title containing shade OR shades OR shading Including several further people with surname Shade
• Shadow (disambiguation)
• Sunshade (disambiguation)