shades

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Posting a photo of the designs they have selected, Lorenze revealed a mix of red and blue paint shades, as well as white fabrics patterned with deep red and blue flowers.

From MarketWatch • Apr. 8, 2026

Across brands, brighter colors such as red and yellow tended to contain more lead than less vibrant shades.

From Science Daily • Apr. 2, 2026

Ursula has shades of Gellar’s famous characters — Buffy’s physical ferocity, Kathryn Merteuil’s ruthless cattiness, Daphne Blake’s affinity for mysterious games — but doesn’t play to one exclusively.

From Salon • Mar. 26, 2026

Two smaller chapels—one blood red, and the other white—contrast with the interior’s shades of gray, as do stained-glass and hand-painted windows, which, in handwriting, call out the Virgin by name, “Marie.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 6, 2026

I think about the pictures I’ve seen online, of people with vitiligo who have lost all their color, who turn the most delicate shades of pale.

From "How to Disappear Completely" by Ali Standish