muted vs unsharp

muted

adj
  • Quiet or soft. 

  • Subdued. 

  • Not expressed strongly or openly. 

unsharp

adj
  • dulled or intentionally blunt. 

  • out of focus; blurry. 

verb
  • To sharpen (an image) by creating a blurred ("unsharp") negative as a mask, and then combining that mask with the original. 

How often have the words muted and unsharp occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )