Tone

Tone may refer to:

Color-related

 * Tone (color theory), a mix of tint and shade, in painting and color theory
 * Tone (color), the lightness or brightness (as well as darkness) of a color
 * Toning (coin), color change in coins
 * Photographic print toning, a process that changes the color of monochromatic film, e.g. sepia tone

Sound and music

 * Tone (linguistics), the pitch and pitch changes in words of certain languages
 * Tone (musical instrument), the audible characteristics of a musician's sound
 * Musical tone, a sound characterized by its duration, pitch, intensity, and timbre
 * Pure tone, a tone with a sinusoidal waveform
 * Reciting tone, such as Psalm tone and recitative, as in Gregorian chants
 * Tonality, a system of music based on a key "center", or tonic
 * Tone control, a (typically electronic) control for affecting frequency content of an audio signal
 * Whole tone, or major second, a commonly occurring musical interval

Musical genres, groups, people and works

 * Tone (DC band), a DC instrumental band formed in 1991
 * Tone (jazz-fusion band), active 1974–1981
 * Tone (Jeff Ament album), a 2008 album by Jeff Ament
 * Tone (TVXQ album), a 2011 album by Tohoshinki
 * 2 Tone (music genre) or Two Tone, style of music combining elements of ska and punk
 * Kentaro Tone, Japanese voice actor
 * Tones (album), a 1986 album by Eric Johnson
 * Yasunao Tone, Japanese-American experimental composer with Hi-Red Center, Fluxus, etc.
 * Tones and I, Australian pop singer

Places

 * Tone, Gunma, Japan
 * Tone, Ibaraki, Japan
 * Tone, Somerset, England
 * Tone River (disambiguation)

Physiology

 * Muscle tone, the state of tension or responsiveness of the organs or tissues of the body
 * Toning exercises, the use of exercise to develop hard, but not necessarily large, musculature tone

Other uses

 * Tone (literature), a literary technique which encompasses the attitudes toward the subject and toward the audience implied in a literary work that is compatible with the other drive
 * Tone (magazine), a New Zealand technology magazine
 * Tone (name)
 * Japanese ship Tone (pronounced "Toh-Neh"), three warships of Japan
 * Tone policing, focusing on the emotion of a message rather than its content
 * Tone's Spices, a brand owned by Associated British Foods
 * Dual-tone multi-frequency signaling, a telecommunication signaling system, also known as "Touch-Tone"