Shade (disambiguation)

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

Creative arts

* "Shade" (film), a 2003 crime film directed by Damian Nieman, starring Sylvester Stallone, Melanie Griffith, Gabriel Byrne, Hal Holbrook & Thandie Newton
* "Shades" (film), a 1999 film by Erik Van Looy
* "Shade" (2006 film), starring Kimberly Williams and Patrick Dempsey
* "Shade" (interactive fiction), a game by Andrew Plotkin
* "Shade" (novel), by Neil Jordan
* Shades, a defunct Estonian band
* "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
* , a 2004 Computer and XBOX game developed by Black Element Software

Characters in fiction

* Shade - 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 (Sonic the Hedgehog), a new character from the series who appears in Sonic Chronicles
* Shade is one of the eight elemental spirits featured in the "Mana" series. Unsurprisingly, he represents the darkness element.
* 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

urnames

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