Look-alikes · Saint Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha · Turks and Caicos Islands
Saint Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha vs Turks and Caicos Islands
Two copies of one picture are 0% apart and the widest pair in the world is 100%.
Saint Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha and Turks and Caicos Islands are 15% apart. They are closer than 99% of the flag pairs in the world.
Turks and Caicos Islands carries a shield with a fish on it. Saint Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha carries none.
Where the difference is
Each colour on Saint Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha, matched with the nearest colour on Turks and Caicos Islands, and how far apart the two are, the number is the worst single tile, out of 255.
- #012169#0028687
- #c8102e#ce11268
- #ffffff#ffffff0
The colour that separates them is a red: #c8102e against #ce1126, 8 apart.
How they are put together
Both were measured as a single-coloured ground, a canton.
Both are flown at the same shape, 2.00 : 1.
What each one carries
Turks and Caicos Islands carries a coat of arms, a shield, and a fish. Saint Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha 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 Saint Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha and Turks and Caicos Islands score 38.7 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.