A toner, comprising a toner particle, wherein the toner particle has a core-shell structure comprising a core particle and a shell on a surface of the core particle, the shell comprises a polymer having monomer units represented by Formula (I) below, the toner comprises a specific external additive A, the external additive A is at least one selected from the group consisting of silica fine particles and organosilicon polymer fine particles, and a ratio of coverage of a surface of the toner particle with the external additive A is 0.3 area % or higher:

##STR00001## in Formula (I), L.sup.1 represents —COO(CH.sub.2).sub.n— (where n is an integer of 1 to 10), and carbonyl of L.sup.1 is bonded to a carbon atom of a main chain; R.sup.1 represents hydrogen or a methyl group; and R.sup.2 to R.sup.10 represent each independently an alkyl group having 1 to 4 carbon atoms.

[Object] To provide toner particles for developing an electrostatically charged image which are hardly affected by a particle size of resin fine particles and are more excellent in fixability and heat-resistant preservability.

[Solution] A toner particle for developing an electrostatically charged image including a toner base particle and a resin coating covering the toner base particle, in which the toner base particle includes a recess on a surface of the toner base particle, the recess includes a recess having a depth of 50 nm to 500 nm, the resin coating includes a coating (A) portion having a thickness of 10 nm or more and less than 50 nm and a coating (B) portion having a thickness of 50 nm or more and 500 nm or less, and the coating (B) portion is present on the recess.

A toner comprising a toner particle comprising a binder resin, and an external additive, wherein the toner particle further comprises a monohydric aliphatic alcohol, the monohydric aliphatic alcohol has 8 to 18 carbon atoms, a content ratio of the monohydric aliphatic alcohol extracted from the toner with ethanol is 30 to 300 ppm by mass in the toner, and the external additive comprises at least one selected from the group consisting of hydrotalcite particles and alumina particles.

A toner comprising a toner particle comprising a binder resin, wherein the toner particle further comprises: a compound represented by R.sup.1—[OCH.sub.2CH.sub.2].sub.n—OH, where, R.sup.1 represents a linear or branched alkyl group having 8 to 22 carbon atoms, and n is an integer of 1 to 3; and at least one polyvalent element selected from the group consisting of magnesium, calcium, aluminum, boron and iron, and a content of the polyvalent element in the toner is 100 mass ppm to 5000 mass ppm.

A toner comprising a toner particle comprising a binder resin, wherein the toner particle further comprises a compound represented by a following formula (1) and a pigment having a quinacridone structure;

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where, in the formula (1), R represents a linear or branched alkyl group having 4 to 22 carbon atoms, and n is an integer of 1 to 4.

An electrostatic charge image developing toner contains: a toner particle including a core portion containing a binder resin and a release agent that has a melting temperature Tm of 80° C. or less, and a coating layer that coats the core portion and contains an amorphous polyester resin, and the toner particle has a cross section in which one or more and three or less domains of the release agent are present in the core portion, the one or more and three or less domains having a circle-equivalent diameter of 1 μm or more and 3 μm or less, the toner particle has a volume average particle diameter of 4.2 μm or more and 5.8 μm or less, and a ratio of a thickness of the coating layer to a maximum diameter of the toner particle is 1% or more and 25% or less in the cross section.

An electrostatic charge image developing toner contains: a toner particle including a core portion containing a binder resin and a release agent that has a melting temperature Tm of 80° C. or less, and a coating layer that coats the core portion and contains an amorphous polyester resin, and the toner particle has a cross section in which one or more and three or less domains of the release agent are present in the core portion, the one or more and three or less domains having a circle-equivalent diameter of 1 μm or more and 3 μm or less, the toner particle has a volume average particle diameter of 4.2 μm or more and 5.8 μm or less, and a ratio of a thickness of the coating layer to a maximum diameter of the toner particle is 1% or more and 25% or less in the cross section.

An electrostatic charge image developing toner includes a toner particle, and the toner particle includes: a core particle containing a large-diameter particle having a number average particle diameter of 1 μm or more; and a shell layer that includes at least two resin layers each containing an amorphous resin and covers a surface of the core particles, and an outermost layer of the at least two resin layers is a resin layer being made of the amorphous resin.

An electrostatic charge image developing toner includes a toner particle, and the toner particle includes: a core particle containing a large-diameter particle having a number average particle diameter of 1 μm or more; and a shell layer that includes at least two resin layers each containing an amorphous resin and covers a surface of the core particles, and an outermost layer of the at least two resin layers is a resin layer being made of the amorphous resin.

A toner comprising: a toner particle comprising a binder resin and a hydrocarbon wax; and inorganic fine particles, wherein the inorganic fine particles include silica fine particles surface-treated with specific polydimethylsiloxanes, a total amount of trimethylsilanol in the silica fine particles is from 1.0 ppm to 5.0 ppm, where a standard value of an amount of ions of an ester group is measured by time-of-flight secondary ion mass spectrometry, one or more peaks of the standard value are present within a range of 100 nm from the surface of the toner particle, and the maximum value A(d max) among the peaks of the standard value and the standard value A(0) on the surface of the toner particle satisfy the following relationships:

1.05≤A(d max)/A(0)≤5.00,

A(0)≥0.010.