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Serbia vs United States
Two copies of one picture are 0% apart and the widest pair in the world is 100%.
Serbia and United States are 40% apart. They are closer than 96% of the flag pairs in the world.
Where the difference is
Each colour on Serbia, matched with the nearest colour on United States, and how far apart the two are, the number is the worst single tile, out of 255.
- #ffffff#ffffff0
- #c6363c#bf0a3044
- #0c4076#00205b32
The colour that separates them is a red: #c6363c against #bf0a30, 44 apart.
How they are put together
Both were measured as horizontal bands.
Only United States: a canton.
Serbia is flown 1.50 : 1 and United States 1.90 : 1.
What each one carries
Serbia carries a coat of arms. United States 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 Serbia and United States score 102.5 out of 255, which is the 40% 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.