Tone
# 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 (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
* 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
