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Wrong brand. I have various coloured sheets and they're still holding their colour after years.
Look it's hard to tell with sheet quality sometimes unfortunately. I have two sets of linen sheets, both expensive organic whatever... the navy one from Elkie & Ark bought in Dec 2020 started not just pilling but, to my frustration, leaving tiny, pilled fibres on the mattress under where I slept and it's been impossible to get them off. The other one, an olive green set from Bed Threads with two extra ochre pillow cases bought in Mar 2022, has had no issues.
Neither has faded though.
Also, if you have doubts, you can wash items BEFORE use with salt in the water instead of soap powder/detergent. This will fix the colour - even for very cheap dyed items. Dosage is 1 cup of pure cooking salt (not iodised) per 10 litres of water in the machine. Rinse with clean water as normal. This also cleans your machine quite well.
Go for koo.
Have a bunch of vivid colours coming up on 10-15 years old now, very colour fast
Dye is so finicky sometimes... I used to dye my own clothing at home and had to be careful of it running. (I didn't have any of the special product used to remove the last loose traces either.) I used cold water washes, salt, air drying inside and sometimes detergent meant for dark colours.
There are also dye fixatives that I've seen now - I haven't used them before but if you were interested in giving that a try RIT at Woolies seems the easiest to get hold of.
Edit: It could very much be a quality issue with the sheets too but unfortunately I don't have any advice on which are good. I just gave up and buy very cheap white cotton sheets which can take a beating or some bleach.