"delicate contrast" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when you need to describe something that has subtle differences in comparison to something else. For example, "The art piece used a delicate contrast between colors to add depth to the painting."
The best of them have a luminous, atmospheric quality that owes itself to the artist's fluid, free-flowing line and the delicate contrast of light and shadow deriving from the subtle application of multiple layers of charcoal and pastel.
Add the delicate contrast of matte and shiny materials and the subtle play on transparency with the use of semisheer and perforated fabrics, and this young designer proved that he was brimming with champion ideas.
The blueness of the long shadows creates a delicate contrast with the creamy whites of the sky and landscape".
American commercial buildings of the late nineteenth and early twentieth century are studded with roundels, lozenges, ornate parapets, cornices, pretty pilasters and window cases, often with delicate contrasting colours against the brickwork.
The second is a work of eloquent geometry and delicate tonal contrast, white on white, reminiscent of Paul Strand.
"The response to this meditative installation that is so still and so delicate, in contrast to the busy, noisy atrium, can't be predicted," Ms. Temkin said.
The painstaking process of placing the gift in the delicate structure contrasts nicely with the spider's rejection of the intrusive objects; the gift is unceremoniously returned to sender.
ODVIP unravels from an opening of heavy, copious guitar to a more delicate verse, contrasted by gruff vocals; this style retreats back and forth throughout the entirety and takes the listener along with the motion.
Ms. VanDerBeek, for example, combines set-up and appropriation techniques in her photographs of house-of-cards-like arrangements built from found images and small objects, which create delicate, poetic contrasts of different cultures and artifacts.
We are never quite sure, which is the novel's point; its exquisite and delicate prose contrasts with the rawness and violence of its action, its striking originality with our realisation that we're reading one of the oldest stories in the world.
In Ms. Gates's "Delicate Balance," by contrast, much of interest passes before your eye, but in a jumble.
