Look-alikes · American Samoa · Liberia
American Samoa vs Liberia
Two copies of one picture are 0% apart and the widest pair in the world is 100%.
American Samoa and Liberia are 47% apart. A typical pair of flags is 68% apart.
Where the difference is
Each colour on American Samoa, matched with the nearest colour on Liberia, and how far apart the two are, the number is the worst single tile, out of 255.
- #00205b#00205b0
- #ffffff#ffffff0
- #bf0a30#bf0a300
Every colour on American Samoa has an exact match on Liberia. What separates them is not paint.
How they are put together
Nothing about how they are built was measured the same on both.
Only Liberia: horizontal bands, a canton.
What each one carries
American Samoa carries a bird, an eagle, and some other weapon. Liberia carries a star.
How the number was arrived at
Both flags are drawn at 64×48 and cut into squares 8 across. Each square is averaged to one colour, and the score is the worst single square, so two flags that agree everywhere except one corner are as far apart as that corner, which is the right answer to a question about whether anybody could tell them apart. 0 is the same picture; the number is the worst single tile, out of 255.
On that scale American Samoa and Liberia score 120.4 out of 255, which is the 47% above.
It cannot see everything. Both flags are stretched to the same box, so Indonesia and Monaco, which differ in nothing else, are measured as their reds rather than as identical. The look-alikes page sets out the rest.
Also close
The flags the pipeline measured nearest to these two.