Latte

55 cards · Moderate

Latte

55 cards · Artist AI generated

Latte art depends on a single technical trick: microfoam, milk steamed fine and glossy enough to pour rather than spoon, thin enough to sit on top of the crema without sinking straight through it. Without that texture nothing in this set is possible; with it, pouring the pattern is mostly a matter of the angle and the speed of the cup.

The style now practised worldwide largely traces back to one shop. David Schomer of Espresso Vivace in Seattle refined the technique through the late 1980s and 1990s, credited microfoam itself to a neighbouring shop's barista, and by 1989 had a signature heart and rosetta pattern that customers came back specifically to see poured.

Every pattern in this set comes from the same two moves repeated in different rhythms: wiggling the pitcher to lay down repeating leaves, or holding it steady to pour a single clean shape, the whole difference between a fern and a heart or a pig being timing rather than a different technique entirely.

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