Minuette is a female unicorn pony with a Maya blue coat, periwinkle mane and tail with a pigment blue streak and steel blue eyes. She has an hourglass cutie mark, the same as Dr. Hooves's. She shares her design with Sea Swirl and Peachy Pitt. She mouths the word "muffins" along with other ponies in Applebuck Season, has speaking roles in A Canterlot Wedding — Part 1, A Canterlot Wedding — Part 2, Trade Ya!, Amending Fences, the IDW comics' story The Fall of Sunset Shimmer and the chapter book Discord and the Ponyville Players Dramarama. Her name is the feminine form of "minuet", a 17th-century French dance.