Look-alikes · Syria · Yemen
Syria vs Yemen
Two copies of one picture are 0% apart and the widest pair in the world is 100%. The app files them together as Pan-Arab Colors.
Syria and Yemen are 44% apart. They are closer than 93% of the flag pairs in the world.
Where the difference is
Each colour on Syria, matched with the nearest colour on Yemen, and how far apart the two are, the number is the worst single tile, out of 255.
- #000000#0000000
- #007a3d#ce1126206
- #ffffff#ffffff0
- #ce1126only on Syria
How they are put together
Both were measured as horizontal bands.
Syria runs green, white and black from the top. Yemen runs red, white and black from the top.
Both are flown at the same shape, 1.50 : 1.
What each one carries
Syria carries a star. Yemen 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 Syria and Yemen score 111.3 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.