Electric blue neon sign: the real blue aesthetic symbol
Electric blue is a bright, cool-toned blue used in custom signage. The name comes from the glow of electric sparks and ionised gas (Wikipedia: Electric blue (color)). You can use it in bedrooms, restaurants, bars and shop windows.
This article covers what makes electric blue neon glow, the blue aesthetic behind it, ideas by room, and, for sign shop owners, how to price and sell it online with a live customiser.
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What are electric blue neon blue aesthetic signs?
Electric blue neon signs are neon signs that glow a bright, cool blue. Pure neon gas only glows reddish-orange. Other colours, including blue, come from other gases, or from an argon and mercury mixture whose ultraviolet light makes a phosphor coating inside the tube glow its own colour (Wikipedia: Neon sign).
Electric blue signs are also made as LED neon. LED strips are built on a flexible circuit board and can be used to resemble traditional neon lights, with no gas or glass tube (Wikipedia: LED strip light).
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Electric blue suits tech, gaming and nightlife spaces as well as calmer settings like bedrooms and spas.
The psychology of electric blue neon
Blue is a widely liked colour. Surveys across the US and Europe found blue is the colour both men and women are most likely to name as their favourite, and the colour most often associated with harmony, confidence, calmness and intelligence; the United Nations and the European Union both chose blue for their flags partly because of that association with harmony (Wikipedia: Blue).
Because blue is associated with calmness, electric blue neon suits bedrooms and spas. In gaming setups and nightlife venues, it can give a futuristic look.
Related reading: Purple neon light: meaning, shades and buying guide
Electric blue neon signs customisation
Who buys electric blue neon signs
Electric blue neon buyers include, for example, home decor and gifting customers ordering a personalised sign for a bedroom or living room, bars and restaurants wanting a feature wall or logo sign, retailers building a blue-toned storefront display, and gamers and streamers using it as bias lighting behind a monitor.
Pricing and selling it online
Instead of quoting each electric blue neon sign by email, a live customiser lets a shopper type their text, pick a font, choose a shade of blue, set a size and a backboard, and see a design preview and price update as they go. You set the rates; the customiser runs your pricing rules against what the customer picks. Sign Customiser is built for this: a sign shop configures fonts, tube colours, backboard shapes and pricing once, and customers design their sign on the shop’s own website.
A worked pricing example
One way to price neon is by tube length rather than a flat fee. Sign Customiser’s “Advanced Letter” pricing model (MATERIAL_LENGTH) uses the formula (tube length in cm × price per cm) + base price. The numbers below are illustrative only; you set your own rates in the admin.
| Design | Tube length | Price per cm (example rate) | Base price (example rate) | Illustrative total |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Small script sign | 30 cm | $2.50 | $35 | $110 |
| Medium script sign | 60 cm | $2.50 | $35 | $185 |
A colour or option selection, such as an RGB upgrade, can add a further base price or a price multiplier on top of that total. You control what each selection costs.
Production and material notes
Electric blue neon signs are made in two main ways. LED neon uses LED strips on a flexible circuit board. Glass neon uses gas-filled glass tubing shaped and sealed by a neon bender. LED neon has no glass tubing to break.
When SVG output is turned on, the order email links to an SVG file of the design, along with the colour, material and options the customer chose, so your production team or supplier gets order-ready details without a back-and-forth. Backboard colour, material and texture are configurable per customiser.
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Popular electric blue neon sign designs
- Text signs. A word or short phrase, such as “Hello” or “Take it easy”.
- Word and logo signs. A shop name, brand logo or section label, such as the “DENIM” sign a clothing shop uses to mark its jeans section.
- Shape signs. Outlines such as a moon, a wave or a simple line drawing.
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By room: a crescent moon and wave design, or a short phrase, above the headboard for a bedroom; a word or quote resting on a shelf or table for a living room or home office; and a logo or word sign in a window or above a product display for a bar or retail space, the way “DENIM” marks a section in a clothing shop.
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The future of electric blue neon signs
Blue neon also appears on screen. The still below from the 1982 science fiction film Blade Runner shows a street scene lit by blue and pink neon signs. The same cool glow suits gaming setups, tech offices and nightlife venues, and it also works in calmer rooms such as bedrooms and spas.
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Cost of electric blue neon blue aesthetic signs?
The price of an electric blue neon sign depends on its size, the length of tube or LED strip it needs, and any extras such as a backboard, dimmer or remote.
A quick way to check a price is to build the design in a live customiser and watch the price update as you go, rather than requesting a quote by email.
FAQs about electric blue neon blue aesthetic signs
What is the difference between electric blue and neon blue?
“Electric blue” is named after the glow of electric sparks and ionised gas, and its meaning now covers any intense, vivid blue (Wikipedia: Electric blue (color)). This article uses “neon blue” and “electric blue” for the same bright, cool blue, whether the sign is glass neon or LED neon.
What does blue mean as a colour?
Blue is widely associated with calmness, confidence and intelligence. Surveys in the US and Europe find blue is the colour most often named as a favourite (Wikipedia: Blue).
Is LED neon better than glass neon for electric blue signs?
For many home and business signs, LED neon is a practical choice: it has no glass tubing to break and no gas to seal. Glass neon still has a place for a traditional look or an exact vintage-style glow.
Are LED neon signs energy-efficient?
Yes. LEDs put out more light per watt than incandescent bulbs, so a small LED sign uses far less power than an equivalent incandescent light for the same brightness (Wikipedia: Light-emitting diode).
Sources
- Wikipedia: Neon sign
- Wikipedia: Blue
- Wikipedia: Light-emitting diode
- Wikipedia: LED strip light
- Wikipedia: Electric blue (color)
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