Honor Cords – Light Blue

Light Blue Honor Cords (sometimes spelled as Lt. Blue Honors Chords) come in s ets of two knoted cords, shipped together tied or separately. The fabric used is rayon, not silk. Each half-cord is around thirty inches long, measured from knot to end of tassel (about sixty inches long when spread out rather than folded at the knot). Each tassel is about four inches long. Honor cords are made from rayon (we do not offer silk). You can mix and match different color cords together.

People sometimes call these awards honors cord, honor chords, or honors chords.

Typical Uses

These light blue honor cords are used as an award for recognition of individual achievement and participation. They’re often worn during a commencement ceremony by a college, universities, community colleges, high school, and some middle school and homeschool groups.

Who Buys Honor Cords

Members of an honors society, sorority, fraternity or department recognition coordinator. Also, summa cum laude, magna cum laude, and cum laude awards.

Honor Societies using Light Blue

Light Blue is used in a few honor society ceremonies for college and university graduations. The following honor societies use lt. blue honors chords:

Gamma Theta Upsilon

Phi Alpha Theta

Pi Alpha Alpha

There are more honor societies that use light blue than those listed above. Many also use a close variation to that color. If your honor socieity uses light blue, and is not listed above, please drop us an email and let us know, and we will add your name to our list.

This Light Blue Color

The color is listed as light blue. Blue shades include: alice blue, azure blue, cerulean, cerulean, blue cobalt, cornflower blue, dark blue, denim, dodger blue, indigo, internationall klein blue, lavender, midnight blue, navy, periwinkle, persian blue, powder blue, prussian blue, sapphire, steel blue, ultramarine, light blue (lt. blue).

All blues are described as a calming, soothing color, and associated water and to the sky. Blue is often a color used to symbolise honesty, trustworthiness, radition, and stability, and patriotism in the U.S. and some other nations that include blue in their flags.

Graduate hoods and academic regalia colors that include bluish shaeds include Arts in Education, Counseling and Guidance, Education, Foreign Affairs, Foreign Service, Government, Optometry, Pedagogy, Philosophy, Political Science, Public Administration, Public Service, and Religious Education.

How to Buy
Prices range from $8 to $12 (plus shipping) a set, depending on the quantity you buy. Bulk discounting is available. We offer two ways to buy these cords. The easiest purchase method is to Buy Online .

If your honor society would like to purchase a bulk amount of honors products, please let us know. We may also be able to come to an agreement whereby you contract with Academic to supply all your cords to your various members across the country through our website. As a smaller business than most of our competition, we are often in a position to be flexible about various joint ventures with societies and similar organizations.