Look-alikes · Antigua and Barbuda · Hong Kong
Antigua and Barbuda vs Hong Kong
Two copies of one picture are 0% apart and the widest pair in the world is 100%.
Antigua and Barbuda and Hong Kong are 41% apart. They are closer than 95% of the flag pairs in the world.
Where the difference is
Each colour on Antigua and Barbuda, matched with the nearest colour on Hong Kong, and how far apart the two are, the number is the worst single tile, out of 255.
- #ce1126#ee1c2532
- #000000#ffffff255
- #0072c6only on Antigua and Barbuda
- #ffffffonly on Antigua and Barbuda
- #fcd116only on Antigua and Barbuda
The colour that separates them is black against white: #000000 against #ffffff, 255 apart.
How they are put together
Nothing about how they are built was measured the same on both.
Only Hong Kong: a single-coloured ground.
What each one carries
Antigua and Barbuda carries a sun. Hong Kong carries a star and a flower.
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 Antigua and Barbuda and Hong Kong score 105.3 out of 255, which is the 41% 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.
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The flags the pipeline measured nearest to these two.