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 brew install make-colors
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+If you don’t use Homebrew you can also install directly from source. Clone the repository or download the release and run `make install` inside the working copy.
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 ## Input format
 
 Each line in your input contains one color definition. That is a name followed by the actual color. We support RGB colors in a few formats similar to CSS: