In literature, baby blue is frequently employed as a vivid marker of color that adds both visual appeal and emotional nuance to descriptions. Writers use it to characterize objects ranging from delicate floral imagery—as seen in botanical names like “Baby Blue-eyes” ([1], [2], [3])—to fashionable accessories such as tam-o’-shanter hats, ribbons, and silk pajamas ([4], [5], [6], [7], [8], [9], [10]). It also colors inanimate environments, transforming a sterile room into a striking image with its pale, tranquil hue ([11], [12]). By attributing baby blue to everyday items—from a thin book bound in baby blue and gold ([13]) to the expressive eyes of a character ([14])—authors invite readers to experience the softness, serenity, and sometimes the subtle irony associated with this gentle shade.
- Baby Blue-eyes—Nemophila insignis.
— from Field Book of Western Wild Flowers by Margaret Armstrong
- 413 Baby Blue-eyes—Nemophila intermedia.
— from Field Book of Western Wild Flowers by Margaret Armstrong
- The sand verbena, the evening primrose, baby blue-eyes, and different kinds of lilies grow so thickly in places that every footstep crushes them. FIG.
— from The Western United States: A Geographical Reader by Harold W. (Harold Wellman) Fairbanks
- And in every store seeking trade from the college girls they found the baby blue tam-o'-shanters.
— from Ruth Fielding At College; or, The Missing Examination Papers by Alice B. Emerson
- Her short sleeves are tied up with ribbons of baby blue, and she may wear a broad sash of the same color.
— from A Troublesome Flock: A Mother Goose Play for Children by Elizabeth F. (Elizabeth Frances) Guptill
- "And the man in the baby blue silk pajamas, was——" the great detective paused, as if to make his revelation more effective.
— from The Cruise of the Jasper B. by Don Marquis
- It was a baby blue satin handkerchief bag that she had made herself, with a handkerchief and a sachet inside.
— from Over Periscope Pond
Letters from Two American Girls in Paris October 1916-January 1918 by Esther Sayles Root
- I did not believe that they ordered us to wear baby blue tams just out of an arbitrary desire to make us obey.
— from Ruth Fielding At College; or, The Missing Examination Papers by Alice B. Emerson
- the proprietor had tam-o'-shanters of just the required shade, baby blue.
— from Ruth Fielding At College; or, The Missing Examination Papers by Alice B. Emerson
- This man still wore his suit of baby blue pajamas.
— from The Cruise of the Jasper B. by Don Marquis
- The room was a sterile baby blue, nothing to see.
— from Life Blood by Thomas Hoover
- Mr. Driscoll sank into an upholstered chair, and a skirmish began between his purple face and the baby blue of the chair's back.
— from The Walking Delegate by Leroy Scott
- " "So I gather from this thing," says he, wavin' a thin book bound in baby blue and gold.
— from On With Torchy by Sewell Ford
- Bill Saxby's [154] eyes of baby blue were big and round as saucers as he wildly flourished his paddle as the only cudgel at hand.
— from Blackbeard: Buccaneer by Ralph Delahaye Paine