Look-alikes · Cuba · Togo
Cuba vs Togo
Two copies of one picture are 0% apart and the widest pair in the world is 100%.
Cuba and Togo are 44% apart. They are closer than 92% of the flag pairs in the world.
Where the difference is
Each colour on Cuba, matched with the nearest colour on Togo, and how far apart the two are, the number is the worst single tile, out of 255.
- #002a8f#006a4e65
- #ffffff#ffffff0
- #cb1515#d2103431
The colour that separates them is blue against green: #002a8f against #006a4e, 65 apart.
How they are put together
Both were measured as horizontal bands.
Only Cuba: a triangle at the pole. Only Togo: a canton.
What each one carries
Both carry 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 Cuba and Togo score 112.1 out of 255, which is the 44% 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.