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Smarties colour palette
### Colours of old Smarties with lovely artificial colouring, derived from:
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### "Smarties old new" by John Penton and Paul Hughes - Own work. Licensed under CC BY-SA 2.5 via Wikimedia Commons - https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Smarties_old_new.jpg#mediaviewer/File:Smarties_old_new.jpg
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### image was loaded into gimp, representative parts of each Smartie were isolated, the image converted to indexed palette
### with 9 colours, the palette then saved.
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### "Smarties" is a trademark of Nestle
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### This code is free for any use:
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Smarties = c("#de81a2", "#a4849f", "#00a2cf", "#50be65", "#bfba43", "#e16540", "#c8361f", "#21211e")
### The following should nearly reproduce the image:
plot(1:8,rep(0,8), col=Smarties, pch=19, cex=10)
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