The chevron was by far the most common heraldic division the Intercollegiate Bureau of Academic Costume (IBAC) employed to divide the two or three colors in an institution’s hood, but Bureau director Gardner Cotrell Leonard also used other heraldic devices to avoid assigning duplicate hood linings to colleges and universities that used the same school colors. Beginning in 1895, one of the other heraldic divisions the IBAC used was what they called “[color] and [color]”, most likely referring to a “parti per pale” division whereby the two colors were divided vertically in the lining of the hood with the description being understood as “[left side] and [right side]” of the hood lining.

For example, Furman University was assigned a hood lining with a per pale division of its colors no later than 1927, according to an Intercollegiate Bureau list from that period that described the hood lining as “purple one side, white other side”. A 1948 IBAC list simplified this description to “purple and white”, which caused the Bureau to erroneously state that Furman’s hood was “purple above white” in a 1972 list. None of these Intercollegiate Bureau lists described Furman’s purple as “royal purple” because to conserve space the Bureau tended to abbreviate “royal purple” as “purple” in their lists from the 1920s onward. Here the university’s original pre-1927 hood lining assignment has been restored: royal purple on the left and white on the right, with the two colors divided per pale (vertically).