Tonal Progression
Formal: A succession of color mixtures proceeding from dark to light. (Theryderstudio.com)
Informal: Colors ranging from light to dark
Shade
Formal: A color, especially with regard to how light or dark it is or as distinguished from one nearly like it. (Google.com)
Informal: Black and white from light to dark
Tint
Formal: The mixture of a color with white, which increases lightness, and a shade is the mixture of a color with black, which reduces lightness. (Google.com)
Informal: Colors getting lighter
Tone
Formal: This refers to the lightness or darkness of something. This could be a shade or how dark or light a colour appears. Tones are created by the way light falls on a 3D object. The parts of the object on which the light is strongest are called highlights and the darker areas are called shadows.
Informal: The way a shadow appears on an object
Venn Diagram
Formal: a diagram that shows all possible logical relations between a finite collection of different sets.
Informal: Two circles colliding showing differences and similarities.