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"