Definitions for "Bezold Effect"
The possibility of changing a design considerably by simply changing one of its colors (for example, changing a white background thread to a black thread). The effect was discovered by a rugmaker named Wilhelm von Bezold in the nineteenth century.
The Bezold Effect is an optical illusion, named after a German professor of meteorology, Wilhelm von Bezold (1837-1907), who discovered that a color may appear different depending on its relation to adjacent colors.