A toner comprising a toner particle that contains a binder resin and a wax, wherein the toner particle contains an organosilicon polymer as given by formula (1) below;
R.sup.1—SiO.sub.3/2  (1),
in formula (1), R.sup.1 is an alkyl group having from 1 to 4 carbons; in a cross section of the toner particle observed using a transmission electron microscope, in terms of a distance A from the centroid of the cross section of the toner particle to a contour of the cross section, the organosilicon polymer is present in a region that is not more than 80% of the distance A from the centroid; and an absolute value of a difference between an SP value of the organosilicon polymer and an SP value of the wax is not more than 0.70 (cal/cm.sup.3).sup.1/2.

A toner comprising a toner particle comprising a binder resin and an ester compound, wherein: the binder resin comprises a resin A comprising a specific amount of a long-chain acrylate unit and a styrene-based monomer unit, and a resin B comprising a specific monomer unit in a specific amount; the ester compound has an alkyl chain with a specific chain length, a content of the resin A in the chloroform-soluble portion of the toner particles is 60% by mass or more; and using SPm (J/cm.sup.3).sup.1/2 for a SP value of the long-chain acrylate unit and using SPw (J/cm.sup.3).sup.1/2 for a SP value of the ester compound, SPm is 18.00 to 19.00, and SPm and SPw satisfy formula (a).

|SPm−SPw|≤1.50  (a)

A toner for electrostatic charge image development includes toner particles, the toner particles containing a binder resin containing a vinyl resin and a release agent containing an ester wax, in which in sections of the toner particles, a number average of equivalent circle diameters of sections of domains of the release agent is 0.10 μm or more and 1.5 μm or less, and a standard deviation of the equivalent circle diameters is more than 0.05 and 0.5 or less.

Provided is a toner including toner particles. Each of the toner particles includes a toner base particle including a binder resin and a release agent. The toner particles have an average circularity of 0.974 or greater and 0.985 or less. An arithmetic mean height Sa of surfaces of the toner particles is 45 nm or greater. The toner particles have a BET specific surface area of 1.3 m.sup.2/g or greater and 2.5 m.sup.2/g or less.

A toner excellent in low-temperature fixing property and shelf stability. The toner comprising colored resin particles containing a binder resin, a colorant, a softening agent and a charge control agent, and an external additive, wherein a glass transition temperature (Tg) specified from a temperature dependence curve for a loss tangent (tan δ) of the toner, which is obtained by a dynamic viscoelastic measurement of the toner at a measurement frequency of 24 Hz, satisfies 45° C.<Tg(° C.)<100° C., and formula (I-1): 5.00×10.sup.−2<(tan δ(Tg)−tan δ(45° C.))/(Tg−45)<7.60×10.sup.−2 and formula (I-2): −3.0×10.sup.−3<(tan δ(130° C.)−tan δ(100° C.))/30<9.8×10.sup.−1 are satisfied, or formula (II-1): 5.00×10.sup.−2<(tan δ(Tg)−tan δ(45° C.))/(Tg−45)<7.60×10.sup.−2 and formula (II-2): 2.1×10.sup.−3<(tan δ(130° C.)−tan δ(100° C.))/30<4.4×10.sup.−2 are satisfied.

Provided is a toner containing a toner particle comprising a binder resin and an organosilicon polymer, wherein the organosilicon polymer contains an organosilicon polymer particle, the organosilicon polymer particle has a structure represented by the following formula (1):
R.sup.1—SiO.sub.3/2  (1)
in formula (1), R.sup.1 is a C.sub.1-4 alkyl group, and in cross-sectional observation of the toner particle by transmission electron microscopy, the organosilicon polymer particle is present in a region extending up to 80% of the distance A from the centroid out of the total distance A from the centroid of the toner particle cross-section to the contour of the cross-section, and the particle diameter of the organosilicon polymer particle is from 10 nm to 200 nm.

An electrostatic charge image developing toner set includes a toner A that contains a binder resin A and a dye, and a white toner B that contains a binder resin B and a titanium oxide pigment, in which an absolute value of a difference (ΔSP value) in solubility parameter between the binder resin A contained in the toner A and the binder resin B contained in the white toner B is 0.5 or greater.

An electrostatic charge image developing toner includes a toner particle that contains a silicon phthalocyanine dye and a zirconium oxide particle.

An electrostatic charge image developing toner contains toner particles that contain a binder resin and resin particles and an external additive that contains inorganic particles, in which a loss coefficient tanδ.sub.a of the resin particles at 40° C. and 0.1 rad/s satisfies 0.1 < tanδ.sub.a < 1.0, a loss coefficient tanδ.sub.b of the resin particles at 40° C. and 10 rad/s satisfies 1.3 < tanδ.sub.b < 3.0, and in a case where a strain of 0.005% is applied to the toner at 40° C., a stress relaxation time .sub.τ of the toner satisfies 5 seconds < τ < 500 seconds.

The present invention relates to a ferrite particle containing a crystal phase component containing a perovskite crystal represented by a compositional formula: RZrO.sub.3 (provided that R represents an alkaline earth metal element), having a surface roughness Rz of 0.8 .Math.m or more and 3.5 .Math.m or less, and having a standard deviation Rzσ of the surface roughness Rz falling in a range represented by the following formula 0.15 × Rz ≤ Rzσ ≤ 0.60 × Rz. The ferrite particle can be used as an electrophotographic developer carrier core material. In addition, an electrophotographic developer carrier and an electrophotographic developer can be obtained.