# shadeColor

To ensure a more consistent user experience in native Squirrel components, all hover and highlight effects apply a set shade or tint effect.  This method allows you to pass in a colour and receive the RGBA code of a colour with a 30% shade applied to it. 

The method accepts the following argument

<details>

<summary>color: string</summary>

The color in either Hex or RGB

</details>

<details>

<summary>alpha: number (defaults to 1)</summary>

The alpha value for the color

</details>

Returns an RGBA string of the new colour


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