# Tone

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**Tone** may refer to:

## Visual arts and color-related

- [Tone (color theory)](/source/Tone_(color_theory)), a mix of tint and shade, in painting and color theory
- [Tone (color)](/source/Tone_(color)), the lightness or brightness (as well as darkness) of a color
- [Toning (coin)](/source/Toning_(coin)), color change in coins
- [Photographic print toning](/source/Photographic_print_toning), a process that changes the color of monochromatic film, e.g. *sepia tone*
- [Screentone](/source/Screentone), a technique for shading or patterning drawings

## Sound and music

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

## Musical genres, groups, people and works

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

## Places

- [Tone, Gunma](/source/Tone,_Gunma), Japan
- [Tone, Ibaraki](/source/Tone,_Ibaraki), Japan
- [Tone, Somerset](/source/Tone,_Somerset), England
- [Tone River (disambiguation)](/source/Tone_River_(disambiguation))

## Physiology

- [Muscle tone](/source/Muscle_tone), the state of tension or responsiveness of the organs or tissues of the body
- [Toning exercises](/source/Toning_exercises), the myth that specific exercises can develop "defined", but not necessarily large, musculature

## Other uses

- [Tone (literature)](/source/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)](/source/Tone_(magazine)), a New Zealand technology magazine
- [Tone (name)](/source/Tone_(name))
- [Japanese ship *Tone*](/source/Japanese_ship_Tone) (pronounced "Toh-Neh"), three warships of Japan
- [Tone policing](/source/Tone_policing), focusing on the emotion of a message rather than its content
- Tone's Spices, a brand owned by [Associated British Foods](/source/Associated_British_Foods)
- [Dual-tone multi-frequency signaling](/source/DTMF), a telecommunication signaling system, also known as "Touch-Tone"

## See also

- [Toine](/source/Toine)
- [Ton (disambiguation)](/source/Ton_(disambiguation))
- [Tona (name)](/source/Tona_(name))
- [Tonal (disambiguation)](/source/Tonal_(disambiguation))
- [Tonic (disambiguation)](/source/Tonic_(disambiguation))
- [Toney (disambiguation)](/source/Toney_(disambiguation))
- [Tonie](/source/Tonie)
- [Tune (disambiguation)](/source/Tune_(disambiguation))

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