Look-alikes · Cocos (Keeling) Islands · Saint Kitts and Nevis
Cocos (Keeling) Islands vs Saint Kitts and Nevis
Two copies of one picture are 0% apart and the widest pair in the world is 100%.
Cocos (Keeling) Islands and Saint Kitts and Nevis are 41% apart. They are closer than 95% of the flag pairs in the world.
Where the difference is
Each colour on Cocos (Keeling) Islands, matched with the nearest colour on Saint Kitts and Nevis, and how far apart the two are, the number is the worst single tile, out of 255.
- #19472c#00000071
- #f8c700#ffcd007
The colour that separates them is green against black: #19472c against #000000, 71 apart.
How they are put together
Nothing about how they are built was measured the same on both.
Only Cocos (Keeling) Islands: a single-coloured ground, a canton. Only Saint Kitts and Nevis: a diagonal division.
What each one carries
Cocos (Keeling) Islands carries a crescent and a tree. Saint Kitts and Nevis 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 Cocos (Keeling) Islands and Saint Kitts and Nevis score 103.3 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.
Also close
The flags the pipeline measured nearest to these two.