Touchstone

Touchstone may refer to:

• Touchstone (assaying tool), a stone used to identify precious metals
• Touchstone (metaphor), a means of assaying relative merits of a concept

Business

• Touchstone Books, an imprint of Simon & Schuster
• Touchstone (magazine), a conservative and ecumenical Christian journal
• Touchstone Pictures, a film label of The Walt Disney Studios
• TouchStone Software, US software developer
• Touchstone Television, former name of television production company ABC Studios
• Touchstone Energy, an energy cooperative

Fiction

• Touchstone (As You Like It), a fictional character in Shakespeare's As You Like It
• Touchstone (Garth Nix character), a fictional character from Garth Nix's Old Kingdom trilogy
• Touchstone (Syphon Filter), a villain character from the Syphon Filter games
• Touchstone (Stargate SG-1), an episode of the television series Stargate SG-1
• The Touchstone, a novella written by Edith Wharton
• The Touchstone, a magic-granting artifact in the MUD2 role-playing game

Music

• Touchstone (band), rock group from the UK
• Touchstone (album), a 1982 album by Chick Corea
• Touchstone (US-Irish band), traditional Irish music band from the US

Other

• Ned Touchstone (1926–1988), Louisiana newspaper publisher and political activist
• Operation Touchstone, a series of 14 nuclear tests conducted at the Nevada Test Site in 1987 and 1988
• Touchstone, the brand name of the inductive charger for HP/Palm WebOS devices
• Touchstone file, a network parameter data file
• Touchstone (horse) (1831–1861), thoroughbred racehorse
• Touchstone Theatre, a Vancouver, British Columbia, professional theatre company

• Touchstones Rochdale, art gallery and museum in Rochdale, Greater Manchester, England