Look-alikes · Mali · Senegal
Mali vs Senegal
Two copies of one picture are 0% apart and the widest pair in the world is 100%. The app files them together as Pan-African Colors.
Mali and Senegal are 15% apart. They are closer than 99% of the flag pairs in the world.
Where the difference is
Each colour on Mali, matched with the nearest colour on Senegal, and how far apart the two are, the number is the worst single tile, out of 255.
- #14b53a#00853f48
- #ce1126#e31b2321
- #fcd116#fdef4244
The colour that separates them is a green: #14b53a against #00853f, 48 apart.
How they are put together
Both were measured as vertical bands.
Both run green, yellow and red from the pole.
Both are flown at the same shape, 1.50 : 1.
What each one carries
Senegal carries a star. Mali carries nothing at all.
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 Mali and Senegal score 37.3 out of 255, which is the 15% 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.