"delicate colors" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
You can use it when referring to a soft, subtle color palette, such as a pastel shade. For example, "The painter used delicate colors to create a beautiful, muted landscape."
Where do butterflies get their delicate colors and their ability to fly?
But most of all, they paint and sculpt the sea, rendering beaches, waves and boats in delicate colors and shapes.
"Available Light," her most recent solo exhibition, at the Susan Inglett Gallery in Chelsea in 2012, consisted of still lifes featuring glass spheres, small objects and delicate colors.
He elongates or squashes the panels of a strip as the subject dictates, juggles with perspective, plays off bold outlines against delicate colors.
The Seattle Symphony under Gerard Schwarz found its delicate colors, and the percussion group Nexus explored Takemitsu's battery of devices with a welcome calm and leisure.
"Mosaic" is a vividly scored, 12-minute work of primordial growls and gnashing outbursts, with fleeting moments of delicate colors and undulant riffs.
Tyler Vlahovich combines adamant slashes of China marker with delicate color-pencil shapes resembling bats or cookies.
Masters of poetic minimalism, Formafantasma designed the Blush lamp for Flos to paint delicate color on a wall in winter.
Recipes that call for light soy sauce usually have a delicate color or flavor, either of which could be sullied by regular soy sauce.
Her delicate color-washed drawings of a ghostlike Emily in her white dress, of doleful trees and marching ladies' boots, depict a dreamlike 19th-century otherworld.
Tavel, a town in the southern Rhone Valley, is known for deep-colored, vibrant rosés, while Bandol, a bit farther south along the Mediterranean coast east of Marseille, produces wines of a light, delicate color.
