Touchstone
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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 distribution label of Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures
- TouchStone Software, US software developer
- Touchstone Television (1985–2007), former name of television production company ABC Signature
- Touchstone Television (2020–present), a television production company formerly called Fox 21 Television 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
- The Touchstone (album)
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
- Touchstone (software), risk modeling software created by AIR Worldwide
- Touchstones Rochdale, art gallery and museum in Rochdale, Greater Manchester, England
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