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In the subtractive color system, a tint is a hue plus white, which lightens the value of a color.
Below is an example of tint.
You have two hues, with the base colors up top, which get lighter as you add more and more white.
In the subtractive color system, a tone is a hue plus gray, which mutes the color.
Below is an image example of tone.
As you add gray, it starts to mute the colors. The colors begin to lose their vibrancy as they progress toward that gray.
In the subtractive color system, a shade is a hue plus black, which darkens the value of a color.
Below is an image example of a shade.
In this image, as you add black to the base colors, they get darker.
The other important color schemes are monochromatic and achromatic, the latter of which includes a grayscale.
Monochromatic is a color scheme based on just one hue plus its tints and shades.
When there's no discernible hue, this is called achromatic. At this point, the color is really just going through a scale of white to black, like a grayscale. A grayscale is a multi-step arrangement of swatches of achromatic grays. Each step in a grayscale represents an even progression in value from black to white.
It's worth noting that both of these color schemes can be used across professions like photography and video games as well.
Source: SOURCE: THIS WORK IS ADAPTED FROM SOPHIA AUTHOR MARIO E. HERNANDEZ