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 colour Toning (coin), colour 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. 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 See also Toine Ton (disambiguation) Tona (name) Tonal (disambiguation) Tonic (disambiguation) Toney (disambiguation) Tonie Tune (disambiguation)