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The loveliest of them, the subtly toned “Perfect X Series: Nailing Tints and Wisps,” features the least legible X.

From Washington Post • Mar. 12, 2015

Tints of rose and gold and violet were washed upon it as if painted by the softest brush.

From "When the Sea Turned to Silver" by Grace Lin

And I found myself suddenly wondering if she were the lady that those post-office girls had nicknamed "Autumn Tints."

From Miss Million's Maid A Romance of Love and Fortune by Onions, Mrs. Oliver

Tints like flitting clouds, Titianic, the mystery and despair of art, disclosed to the intelligent eye the feeling that mastered her spirit and her sense.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 02, No. 09, July, 1858 by Various

Illustrated with exquisite Engravings, printed in Tints, from Designs by Alfred Fredericks.

From Destruction and Reconstruction: Personal Experiences of the Late War by Taylor, Richard