Tone may refer to:

  • 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
  • Screentone, a technique for shading or patterning drawings

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

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

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 myth that specific exercises can develop "defined", but not necessarily large, musculature

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"

See also

  • Toine
  • Ton (disambiguation)
  • Tona (name)
  • Tonal (disambiguation)
  • Tonic (disambiguation)
  • Toney (disambiguation)
  • Tonie
  • Tune (disambiguation)