Across many literary works, “soft blue” is employed as a versatile, evocative hue that imbues both characters and settings with gentle beauty and subtle emotion. Writers often describe characters’ eyes as “soft blue” ([1], [2], [3], [4], [5]), suggesting an inherent tenderness, introspection, or vulnerability, while also using it to tint the atmosphere—a calm sky, misty horizons, or even the delicate glow of twilight ([6], [7], [8]). The color appears in depictions of clothing and objects as well, where a soft blue dress or a curtain of pure soft blue light ([9], [10], [11]) enhances the aesthetic appeal and mood of a scene. Whether outlining the emotional depth of a character or setting a tranquil, sometimes nostalgic backdrop, soft blue consistently functions as a visual motif that adds layers of subtle nuance and reflective beauty to the narrative.
- AND YES If I could choose my paradise, And please myself with choice of bliss, Then I would have your soft blue eyes And rosy little mouth to kiss!
— from The Home Book of Verse — Volume 2 by Burton Egbert Stevenson
- There was certainly some restraint over him, and the look in his clear, soft blue eyes was not so steady as it used to be.
— from The Doctor's Daughter by Vera
- Her pretty, soft blue eyes, tender with the light of love, were swimming with tears.
— from Daisy Brooks; Or, A Perilous Love by Laura Jean Libbey
- "A pink and white skin, or a pair of black eyebrows, or perhaps some soft blue eyes."
— from Nobody by Susan Warner
- The sheriff remembered what Vic had said of yellow hair and soft blue eyes.
— from The Seventh Man by Max Brand
- If I could not paint like Claude, I could admire 'the witchery of the soft blue sky' as I walked out, and was satisfied with the pleasure it gave me.
— from Table Talk: Essays on Men and Manners by William Hazlitt
- The sky was a soft blue, bulbous with little puffs of cloud.
— from The Nine-Tenths by James Oppenheim
- The moon had risen in a soft blue sky, and as they stepped into the open air they paused a moment.
— from Limitations: A Novel by E. F. (Edward Frederic) Benson
- She is dressed in a [8] soft blue cotton dress, much like Fair's.
— from The Southern Cross
A Play in Four Acts by Foxhall Daingerfield
- She wore an evening dress—soft blue, tasteful.
— from The Planet Strappers by Raymond Z. Gallun
- He then suspended upon the stage a curtain, whose peculiarity was its pure, soft blue color, like an Italian sky.
— from Strange Visitors
A series of original papers, embracing philosophy, science, government, religion, poetry, art, fiction, satire, humor, narrative, and prophecy, by the spirits of Irving, Willis, Thackeray, Brontë, Richter, Byron, Humboldt, Hawthorne, Wesley, Browning, and others now dwelling in the spirit world; dictated through a clairvoyant, while in an abnormal or trance state by Henry J. Horn