A shade is created by combining black with another color. So when you add black to purple, you get a shade of purple.

What do you get when you mix black and purple?

As you know, adding black to purple makes it a shade, but it got so muddy and cloudy that it almost wound up looking like a tone (adding black AND white to the color).

What color with purple makes black?

Black paint can be made with equal parts red, yellow, and blue paint mixed together on a palette. You can also mix complementary colors such as blue and orange, red and green, or yellow and purple. Mixing blue and brown can also result in a rich black.