Literary authors have often employed light blue to evoke a sense of delicate beauty, calm, and even ethereal wonder. It appears in vivid natural descriptions—a river’s surface shining in light blue, reflecting a sky dotted with clouds ([1])—while simultaneously imbuing characters with a subtle yet arresting quality, as seen in depictions of light blue eyes that convey both innocence and mystery ([2], [3], [4]). The hue also surfaces in sartorial details, lending an air of refinement to dresses, uniforms, and accessories, as noted in sparkling descriptions of light blue silk and embroidered garments ([5], [6], [7]). Beyond mere physical description, light blue often carries associations with the heavens and distant, ephemeral domains, contributing layers of symbolism to the narrative ([8], [9]).
- The river is a shining, spangled, surface of light blue and white, reflecting the sky sprinkled with fleecy clouds.
— from A Canadian Manor and Its Seigneurs: The Story of a Hundred Years, 1761-1861 by George McKinnon Wrong
- Her features were small and delicate, the forehead well shaped, the eyes singularly bright, and of a light blue, under finely marked eyebrows.
— from Darkness and Dawn; Or, Scenes in the Days of Nero. An Historic Tale by F. W. (Frederic William) Farrar
- And the Curate looked at her with dull, light blue eyes, which were dazzled and abashed, not made expressive and eloquent by feeling.
— from Ombra by Mrs. (Margaret) Oliphant
- His figure is slender and erect, his face boyish and his eyes a light blue.
— from The Old World and Its Ways
Describing a Tour Around the World and Journeys Through Europe by William Jennings Bryan
- And so, I shall wear my light blue dress this evening; blond powder will go with it exactly.
— from Monsieur, Madame, and Bébé — Complete by Gustave Droz
- He is in full dress, looking very smart in the light blue Bavarian uniform with its red cuff-facings.
— from The Diary of a French Private: War-Imprisonment, 1914-1915 by Gaston Riou
- Her dress was of light blue, with square-cut neck, filled in with creamy white lace.
— from Quincy Adams Sawyer and Mason's Corner Folks
A Picture of New England Home Life by Charles Felton Pidgin
- The spectral phenomenon now begins at one side with light blue and passes into indigo and violet, with uncoloured darkness in the centre.
— from Man or Matter
Introduction to a Spiritual Understanding of Nature on the Basis of Goethe's Method of Training Observation and Thought by Ernst Lehrs
- Most assuredly not!—White and light blue—the colours of the heavens.
— from Romantic Canada by Victoria Hayward