Tone may refer to:

Visual arts and color-related

Tone (color theory) In color theory, a tint is a mixture of a color with white, which increases lightness, while a shade is a mixture with black, which increases darkness. A tone is produced either by mixing a color with gray, or by both tinting and shading. Mix ...

, 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) Toning on a coin is the change of colour brought about through oxidization, which forms a thin layer of tarnish on the metal's surface, typically as a result of interactions and chemical reactions with sulfur-containing compounds in the environm ...

, color change in coins *

Photographic print toning In photography, toning is a method of altering the color of black-and-white photographs. In analog photography, it is a chemical process carried out on metal salt-based prints, such as silver prints, iron-based prints ( cyanotype or Van Dyke ...

, 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) Tone is the use of pitch (music), pitch in language to distinguish lexical or grammatical meaning—that is, to distinguish or to inflection, inflect words. All oral languages use pitch to express emotional and other para-linguistic informat ...

, the pitch and pitch changes in words of certain languages *

Tone (musical instrument) Tone and sound are terms used by musicians and related professions to refer to the audible characteristics of a player's sound. Tone is the product of all influences on what can be heard by the listener, including the characteristics of the instr ...

, the audible characteristics of a musician's sound *

Musical tone Traditionally in Western classical music, Western music, a musical tone is a steady periodic function, periodic sound. A musical tone is characterized by its duration (music), duration, pitch (music), pitch, amplitude, intensity (or loudness), an ...

, a sound characterized by its duration, pitch, intensity, and timbre *

Pure tone In psychoacoustics, a pure tone is a sound with a sinusoidal waveform; that is, a sine wave of constant frequency, phase-shift, and amplitude. By extension, in signal processing a single-frequency tone or pure tone is a purely sinusoidal signal ...

, a tone with a sinusoidal waveform *

Reciting tone In chant, a reciting tone (also called a recitation tone) can refer to either a repeated musical pitch or to the entire melodic formula for which that pitch is a structural note. In Gregorian chant, the first is also called tenor, dominant or tu ...

, such as Psalm tone and recitative, as in Gregorian chants *

Tonality Tonality is the arrangement of pitch (music), pitches and / or chord (music), chords of a musical work in a hierarchy of perceived ''relations'', ''stabilities'', ''attractions'', and ''directionality''. In this hierarchy, the single pitch or ...

, a system of music based on a key "center", or tonic *

Tone control Tone control is a type of equalization used to make specific pitches or frequencies in an audio signal softer or louder. It allows a listener to adjust the tone of the sound produced by an audio system to their liking, for example to compensate ...

, a (typically electronic) control for affecting frequency content of an audio signal *

Whole tone In Western music theory, a major second (sometimes also called whole tone or a whole step) is a second spanning two semitones (). A second is a musical interval encompassing two adjacent staff positions (see Interval number for more deta ...

, or major second, a commonly occurring musical interval

Musical genres, groups, people and works

Tone (DC band) Tone is an instrumental post-rock band that formed in Washington, DC, in 1991. The group creates dynamic instrumental music using multiple electric guitars. While its two founding members, guitarist Norm Veenstra and drummer Gregg Hudson, have rema ...

, a DC instrumental band formed in 1991 *

Tone (jazz-fusion band) Tone (also known as David Sancious and Tone) was a jazz-fusion band founded in 1974 by former E Street Band keyboardist David Sancious and drummer Ernest "Boom" Carter. They made half a dozen albums between 1974 and 1980, some of which were bil ...

, 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) Two-tone, or 2 tone, also known as ska-rock and ska revival, is a genre of British popular music of the late 1970s and early 1980s that fused traditional Jamaican ska, rocksteady, and reggae music with elements of punk rock and new wave m ...

or Two Tone, style of music combining elements of ska and punk *

Kentaro Tone is a Japanese voice actor from Hiroshima Prefecture, affiliated with I'm Enterprise. He made his voice acting debut in digital content made for a 2006 exhibition at The Museum of Modern Art, Ibaraki, and he later starred as Akita Hattori in ...

, Japanese voice actor * ''Tones'' (album), a 1986 album by Eric Johnson *

Yasunao Tone was a Japanese multidisciplinary artist born in Tokyo, Japan and working in New York City. He graduated from Chiba University in 1957 with a major in Japanese Literature. An important figure in postwar Japanese art during the 1960s, he was active ...

, Japanese-American experimental composer with

Hi-Red Center Hi-Red Center (ハイレッド・センター, Haireddo Sentā) was a Japanese artistic collective, founded in May 1963 and consisting of artists Genpei Akasegawa, Natsuyuki Nakanishi, and Jirō Takamatsu, that organized and performed anti-estab ...

Fluxus Fluxus was an international, interdisciplinary community of artists, composers, designers, and poets during the 1960s and 1970s who engaged in experimental performance art, art performances which emphasized the artistic process over the finishe ...

, etc. *

Tones and I Toni Watson, known professionally as Tones and I, is an Australian singer, songwriter, and record producer. She is best known for her breakout single "Dance Monkey", which reached number one in over 30 countries including her home country ...

, Australian pop singer

Places

Tone, Gunma was a village located in Tone District, Gunma Prefecture, Japan. As of 2003, the village had an estimated population Population is a set of humans or other organisms in a given region or area. Governments conduct a census to quantify the r ...

, Japan *

Tone, Ibaraki 260px, Yanagida Kunio Memorial Museum is a town in Ibaraki Prefecture, Japan. , the town had an estimated population of 15,073 in 6163 households and a population density of 605 persons per km². The percentage of the population aged over 65 wa ...

, Japan * Tone, Somerset, England *

Tone River (disambiguation) Tone River or River Tone may refer to: * Tone River The is a river in the Kantō region of Japan. It is in length (the second longest in Japan after the Shinano River) and has a drainage area of (the largest in Japan). It is nicknamed Band ...

Physiology

Muscle tone In physiology, medicine, and anatomy, muscle tone (residual muscle tension or tonus) is the continuous and passive partial contraction of the muscles, or the muscle's resistance to passive stretch during resting state.O’Sullivan, S. B. (2007) ...

, the state of tension or responsiveness of the organs or tissues of the body *

Toning exercises Toning exercises are physical exercises that are used with the aim of developing a physique with a large emphasis on musculature. In this context, the term toned implies leanness in the body (low levels of body fat), noticeable muscle definiti ...

, the use of exercise to develop hard, but not necessarily large, musculature tone

Other uses

Tone (literature) In literature, the tone of a literary work expresses the writer's attitude toward or feelings about the subject matter and audience. The concept of a work's tone has been argued in the academic context as involving a critique of one's innate ...

, 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) Tone, Tóne or Þone is a given name, nickname and a surname. Tone is a Slovene masculine given name in use as a short form of Anton in Slovenia. It is also a Danish, Finnish, Norwegian and Swedish feminine given name used as an alternate for ...

* 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 Associated British Foods plc (ABF) is a British multinational food processing and retailing company headquartered in London, England. Its ingredients division is the world's second-largest producer of both sugar and baker's yeast and a major pr ...

Dual-tone multi-frequency signaling Dual-tone multi-frequency (DTMF) signaling is a telecommunication signaling system using the voice-frequency band over telephone lines between telephone equipment and other communications devices and Automatic telephone exchange, switching center ...

, a telecommunication signaling system, also known as "Touch-Tone"