tint

/tษชnt/

IPA: /T IH1 N T/

noun
  1. 1

    A slight coloring.

  2. 2

    A pale or faint tinge of any color; especially, a variation of a color obtained by adding white (contrast shade)

  3. 3

    A color considered with reference to other very similar colors.

    โ€œRed and blue are different colors, but two shades of scarlet are different tints.โ€

  4. 4

    A shaded effect in engraving, produced by the juxtaposition of many fine parallel lines.

verb
  1. 1

    To shade, to color.

Source: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/tint