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It turns out contrast rendering impacts perceived color rendering quality.
"Color-Contrast Effects
The interaction of hues results in the following color-contrast effects, which affect our perception of hue, depth, and transparency:
simultaneous contrast—When complementary colors are immediately adjacent to one another, they visually influence each other and their chroma levels appear dramatically intensified. See Figure 22 for an example
successive contrast—When surrounded by an intense hue, a weaker hue takes on the hue of the surrounding hue’s complement, as shown in Figures 23–25.
interaction with the background color—The colors of visual elements interact with their background colors. The degree to which they do so depends on the size of the elements, as you can see in Figure 26.
interaction with surrounding colors—The colors of visual elements interact with their surrounding colors. Again, the degree to which they do so depends on the relative sizes of the elements, as you can see in Figure 27.
a Bezold effect—When distributed evenly, strong colors mix optically, as Figures 28 and 29 show.
area and the visual impact of color—A large area of a dark or very bright color can visually overpower a light-colored area of about the same size, as Figure 30 shows.
an illusion of depth—Warm, intense, or light hues appear to advance, while cool, neutralized, or dark hues appear to recede. Therefore, cool hues, with low levels of chroma and value can suggest spatial depth, as Figures 31 and 32 demonstrate.
a transparency effect—Overlapping areas can appear to be transparent if their colors are mixtures of equalparts of the colors that overlap, as shown in Figure 33."
From "Color Theory for Digital Displays: A Quick Reference: Part II :: UXmatters" by Pabini Gabriel-Petit.
