Artist and designer Kanna Aoki has also created textiles and tableware for major manufacturers during her career. MVB Cafe Mimi came about when Aoki was painting decorative lettering onto a set of cappuccino cups, and decided to turn the forms into a working script face. After drawing the Regular weight with a brush and then digitizing it, Aoki developed the Bold weight from it. Cafe Mimi plays with the baseline, curling above and below it; a complement of double-letter ligatures like gg, mm, nn, and pp lend this typeface the spontaneity and naturalness of handwriting without forsaking balance and legibility. Aoki’s script seems to have emerged straight from a bistro chalkboard in Paris, and is every bit as warm and readable. MVB Fonts, 1996–2003.