An electrophotographic toner is formed as a blend of toner particles and external
additives. The external additives include (1) first inorganic fine particles having
an average primary particle size of 80-800 nm of oxide of a metal selected from
the group consisting of titanium, aluminum, zinc and zirconium, (2) second inorganic
fine particles other than silica having an average primary particle size of below
80 nm and (3) silica fine particles having an average primary particle size of
below 30 nm. As a result, the toner can be made free from difficulties, such as
melt-sticking onto an image-bearing member in a low humidity environment, roughening
of halftone images in a low humidity environment, toner blot-down after storage
at high temperatures or in continuous image formation on a large number of sheets,
fog in continuous formations of images of low color area percentage in a low humidity
environment, and re-transfer in multi-color image formation. Thus, the toner is
suitably used in a multi-color image forming system.