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This package allows users to style their graphs with the same palettes as Wes Anderson movies. The wesanderson() package includes colour palettes from a range of Wes Anderson movies from Moonrise Kingdom to Fantastic Mr. Fox to Isle of Dogs, and more.

library(tidyverse)

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library("wesanderson")

get some data

library(palmerpenguins)

use the function

plot <- ggplot(penguins, aes(factor(species), fill = factor(species))) + geom_bar() + scale_fill_manual(values = wes_palette("FantasticFox1"))
print(plot)

more resources

There are other packages which also come with different colour palettes such as (ggsci)[https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/ggsci/vignettes/ggsci.html] which comes with colour palettes inspired by famous scientific journals such as the Lancet. Documentation for the wesanderson package can be found (here)[https://github.com/karthik/wesanderson]