Building tints and shades in InDesign?

Working with a client's color palette and building a set of tints and shades..the tints, I made easily enough by reducing the % of each successive square by 20%, but what about the shades...adding more and more black?
Is there a method for doing this?
Thank you!
w

Thanks, John..
Here's the snag...while, yes, I could place a black square over my base color and adjust the opacity of the black to create a shade as far as the eye is concerned, what I won't get from doing this is a single color sample. IOW, to add black in 20% increments to the base color, unless the base color has no black to begin with at all.
I could convert color to CMYK, and boost the black by increments, but if the base color already has 50% K, I don't have much to go from there.
I suppose taking a screen capture of my color with various opacities of black over it, then sampling in Photoshop would git 'er done, but I was hoping InDesign could do this within itself..
thank you,
w

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