Dry toners for developing latent electrostatic images in electrostatic recording and printing methods contain, as charge-control substance, a pigment of the formulaF.sup.+ A.sup.- (I)in whichF represent a cationic radical of a methine dyestuff andA.sup.- represents an anion of a heteropolyacid based on tungsten and/or molybdenum with phosphorus, silicon, vanadium, cobalt, aluminum, manganese, chromium and/or nickel or a copper(I) hexacyanoferrate anion.