Touchstone

Touchstone may refer to:

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

Business

• Touchstone Books, an imprint of Simon & Schuster
• Touchstone Magazine, a conservative Christian journal
• Touchstone Pictures, a film banner of Walt Disney Motion Pictures Group
• 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

Music

• Touchstone (band), rock group from the UK
• Touchstone (American band), a Celtic/American folk group in the '80s
• Touchstone (album), a 1982 album by Chick Corea
• TouchStone, rock group from Austria

Other

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