A toner particle includes a core particle including a binder resin, and a plurality of fine particles that are smaller than the core particle and that are attached to a surface of the core particle. The fine particles include silica fine particles, and inorganic fine particles having a band gap energy of 2.5 to 7.0 eV and a relative permittivity of 30 to 100. The toner particle has a content of titanium dioxide of less than 1% by mass.

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.

An electrostatic image developing toner includes a toner particle including a binder resin and a colorant. The net intensity N.sub.S of sulfur included in the toner particle and the total net intensity N.sub.A of an alkali metal and an alkaline-earth metal included in the toner particle, which are measured by X-ray fluorescence analysis, satisfy 1.0<N.sub.S/N.sub.A<22.0.

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 method for producing an electrostatic image developing toner includes mixing toner particles containing an amorphous resin with additive particles. A mixing device used in the mixing includes a stirring vessel, a stirring blade, and a jacket configured to cool the stirring vessel, and condition (1) and condition (2) are satisfied. Condition (1): an internal temperature Ti of the mixing device in the mixing and a glass transition temperature Tg of the amorphous resin contained in a near-surface portion of the toner particles satisfy Tg−50° C.≤Ti<Tg (inequality 1). Condition (2): 0.08≤ (Pm−P0)/w≤0.50 (inequality 2) is satisfied. In inequality 2, Pm represents an average power (kW) of a motor for driving the stirring blade of the mixing device in the mixing, P0 represents an idling power (kW) of the motor, and w represents a total mass (kg) of the toner particles and the additive particles in the mixing device.

A toner for developing an electrostatic charge image contains toner particles containing at least one binder resin, a release agent, and a coloring agent, and a cross-sectional image of the toner particles meets requirements (1) and (2): requirement (1), an average of ten or more domains, per toner particle, of the release agent have an area of 0.5% or more and 5.0% or less of the area of the toner particle; requirement (2), in a Voronoi tessellation generated from the centroids of the domains of the coloring agent, the mean area of the Voronoi cells is 0.020 μm.sup.2 or more and 0.060 μm.sup.2 or less, and the standard deviation of the areas of the Voronoi cells is 0.010 μm.sup.2 or less.

A toner includes toner particles. The toner particles each include a toner mother particle and an external additive attached to the surface of the toner mother particle. The external additive includes first external additive particles and fluorine-containing particles. The first external additive particles each include an aluminum oxide particle, a conductive layer covering the aluminum oxide particle, and a single-layer or multilayer protective layer covering the conductive layer. The conductive layer contains antimony tin oxide. The protective layer includes a layer containing a component derived from a titanate coupling agent, or includes an inner layer containing methylol melamine, urethane resin, or aluminum hydroxide and an outer layer containing a component derived from a silane coupling agent. The first external additive particles have a powder specific resistance of no greater than 50 Ω.Math.cm.

A toner and a method for producing the toner, wherein; the toner comprising a toner particle comprising a polyester resin, and has a softening point of 150° C. or less; the toner particle has the polyester resin within 100 nm from a surface of the toner particle, and where a value obtained by dividing an amount of counted ions for a structure represented by following formula (A) measured from the surface of the toner particle to a depth of 100 nm by TOF-SIMS by a total amount of counted ions is taken as a standard value, one or more peaks of the standard value are present within a range of 100 nm from the surface of the toner particle, and where A(dmax) denotes a standard value at a maximum peak and A(0) denotes a standard value on the toner particle surface, formula 1.15≤A(dmax)/A(0)≤5.00 is satisfied.

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A toner for developing an electrostatic charge image contains toner particles containing at least one binder resin, a release agent, and a coloring agent, and a cross-sectional image of the toner particles meets requirements (1) and (2): requirement (1), an average of ten or more domains, per toner particle, of the release agent have an area of 0.5% or more and 5.0% or less of the area of the toner particle; requirement (2), in a Voronoi tessellation generated from the centroids of the domains of the coloring agent, the mean area of the Voronoi cells is 0.020 μm.sup.2 or more and 0.060 μm.sup.2 or less, and the standard deviation of the areas of the Voronoi cells is 0.010 μm.sup.2 or less.

A toner for developing an electrostatic charge image includes toner particles having an average circularity Cc of 0.80 or more and less than 0.98, and an external additive containing monodisperse silica particles and titanate compound particles, in which a ratio A/B of a coverage A (%) of the monodisperse silica particles on protruding portions of toner particle surfaces to a coverage B (%) of the monodisperse silica particles in recessed portions of the toner particle surfaces is 1.05 or more.