The synthesis and structural variations in solid‐state emission of zwitterionic imidazolium pyridinolates are described. N‐Alkylimidazolium 2‐pyridin‐3‐olate 1 exhibits intense blue emission at ambient temperature (Φ298 K = 0.44, λmax = 424 nm) in the crystalline state, while phenolate 2, another pyridinolate analogue bearing the nitrogen atom at a different position on the pyridine ring 3, and N‐phenylimidazolium ring 4 are less emissive (Φ298 K = 0.05, 0.05, and 0.04) under the same measurement conditions. Temperature‐dependent emission spectra indicate that crystal 1 exhibits high heat‐resistance properties towards emission decay and redshifting thermochromism upon increasing temperature, both of which are in contrast with the heat quenching and blueshift properties of phenolate analogue crystal 2 under the same measurement conditions. XRD analysis and DFT calculations revealed that the effect of the 2‐pyridinolate functionality on the specific efficiency and thermochromism in the crystalline‐state fluorescence of imidazolium arenolates arises from specific restriction of molecular rotation and the resultant molecular constraints in the crystals.