> In painting, if you add white to a color, what have you created?And the answer: tint.Photo credit: Alpine Paint Co[https://alpinepaintco.com/blog/hues-tints-tones-shades-difference/].In colortheory, a tint is created when you mix a color with white, while a shade iscreated when you mix a color with black. Similarly, adding gray to a colorcreates a tone.Although many people use terms like “hue” and “color” or “tint” and “shade”interchangeably, the terms have distinct meanings. Color is a general term usedto describe every hue, tint, tone, or shade we can see. Hue refers to thedominant color family, and thus the origin of the colors we can see. Primary andsecondary colors (yellow, orange, red, violet, glue, and green) are consideredhues, however, tertiary colors (mixed colors) would also be considered hues.Meanwhile, a tint refers to any hue or mixture of pure colors to which white isadded. Pastel colors, for one, are generally tinted colors. Tinted color remainsthe same color, but it is paler than the original (think: "tint" like a "hint"of white).Tone is a hue or mixture of pure colors to which only pure gray is added (puregray = equal amounts of black and white). Adding gray to a color will make theintensity much duller, so mixing too much gray into a hue can allow it to becomeover-dulled to a point that makes it virtually impossible to restore thebrilliance. Similarly, shade is a hue or mixture of pure colors to which onlyblack is added. It contains no white or gray, so the shade darkens the color,but the hue remains the same.Learn more about the color wheel and its associated acts here[https://www.color-wheel-artist.com/hue/].