Shade Explained

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
• Shades or sunglasses
• Shading, a process used in art and graphic design
• Shade (mythology), the spirit or ghost of a dead person
• "Throw shade", slang term for an insulting remark

Geography

United States

• Shade, Kentucky
• Shade, Missouri
• Shade, Ohio
• Shade Gap, Pennsylvania
• Shade Township, Pennsylvania
• Shade Creek
• Shades Mountain

People

People with surname

• Absalom Shade (died 1862), Canadian businessman
• Will Shade (1898–1966), American musician
• Dave Shade (1902–1983), American boxer
• Ellen Shade (born 1944), American operatic soprano from New York
• Eric Shade (cricketer) (born 1943), Australian cricketer
• Eric Shade (footballer) (1912–1984), Australian rules footballer
• Hastings Shade (1941–2010), former deputy chief of the Cherokee Nation
• J. Norman Shade (1902 - 1985), American politician and businessman
• Mariah Shade (born 1991), Trinidadian soccer forward
• Nancy Shade (born 1949), soprano, singing-actress
• Ronnie Shade (1938–1986), Scottish professional golfer
• Sam Shade (born 1973), American assistant special teams coach and former football safety
• Rocky Shades (born 1960), English singer

Given name

• Shade (rapper) (born 1987), Italian rapper, singer and voice actor
• Shade Munro (born 1966), Scottish rugby union player
• Shade Pratt (born 1993), American soccer player
• Shade Rupe (born 1968), American writer, editor, and filmmaker
• Shade Sheist (born 1979), American songwriter and recording artist

Characters

• Shade (comics), an ambiguous villain in the DC universe
• Shade (Dungeons & Dragons), creatures in Dungeons & Dragons
• Shade (Ninjago), a character in Ninjago
• Shade (Silverwing character), a character in Kenneth Oppel's Silverwing series
• Shade (Sonic the Hedgehog), a character in Sonic Chronicles
• Shade, the Changing Man, a character in the Vertigo Comics imprint
• Shade, a character in Beyond Oasis
• Shade, a character in the Mana series
• Shade, a creature from The Inheritance Cycle by Christopher Paolini
• Shades (comics), the name of a supervillain in Marvel Comics
• Hazel Shade, a character from Pale Fire
• John Shade, a character from Pale Fire

Books

• Shade (novel), by Neil Jordan
• Shades (novel), a 1993 book by Marguerite Poland
• Shades series, a book series by Rob Hood
• "Shades" (story), an 1885 short story by Bolesław Prus
• Shade, the Changing Man (Vertigo), an American superhero comic book featuring the character of the same name

Film and television

• Shade (film), a 2003 crime film by Damian Nieman
• Shades (film), a 1999 film by Erik Van Looy
• The Shade (film), a 1999 film by Raphael Nadjari
• Shades (TV series), a British television series
• Shade, a 2006 film starring Patrick Dempsey
• "Shade" (The Flash), an episode of The Flash

Video games

• Shade (interactive fiction), a 2000 game by Andrew Plotkin
• , a 2004 Computer and Xbox game developed by Black Element Software
• SHADES, a Multi-user dungeon game that existed in the 1980s

Music

• Shades (band), an American R&B group
• Shaed, an American indie pop trio

Albums

• Shades (J. J. Cale album) (1981), the sixth album by J. J. Cale, released in 1981
• Shade (Holly Cole album) (2003), a studio album by Holly Cole
• Shades 1968–1998, a Deep Purple compilation album
• Shade (Murray Head album) (1983), the fifth studio album by Murray Head
• Shades (Andrew Hill album) (1988), an album by American jazz pianist Andrew Hill, recorded in 1986
• Shades (Keith Jarrett album) (1975), the fifth album on Impulse by jazz pianist Keith Jarrett
• Shade, disc two of Mike Oldfield's Light + Shade album
• Shades (Shades album), the only studio album by American R&B group Shades
• Shades (Yellowjackets album) (1986), the fourth studio album from the jazz group Yellowjackets
• Shade (Living Colour album), the sixth studio album by Living Colour

Songs

• "Shades" (1985 song), a 1985 song accompanying commercials for Crown Paints
• "Shade" (Silverchair song) (1995), a song by Australian alternative rock band Silverchair
• "Shade", a 2007 song by The Tossers from Agony
• "Shade", a 2011 song by Nadia Oh from Colours
• "Shades", a 1987 song by Iggy Pop from Blah-Blah-Blah
• "Shades" (Alexandra Savior song), the debut single by American singer-songwriter Alexandra Savior
• "The Shade", a 2015 song by Metric from Pagans in Vegas
• "Shading", a song by All That Remains from the 2002 album Behind Silence and Solitude

Other uses

• Shade 3D, a Japanese 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
• The Shade (sculpture) and The Three Shades, sculptures by Auguste Rodin

See also

• Shadow (disambiguation)
• Sunshade (disambiguation)
• Shady (disambiguation)