| 2025-05-04 | Hue of a dry bloodstain, maybe |
| 2024-11-21 | Dark purple shade |
| 2024-09-06 | Shade akin to mauve |
| 2019-09-17 | Color akin to eggplant |
| 2018-10-26 | Relative of sepia |
| 2016-04-24 | Brownish purple |
| 2015-07-20 | Purplish red |
| 2014-12-31 | Brownish purple |
| 2013-09-06 | Brownish purple |
| 2012-09-09 | Purplish shade |
| 2011-11-20 | Color whose name is French for "flea" |
| 2011-07-18 | Dark purple |
| 2010-12-15 | Purple shade |
| 2007-10-14 | One of two school colors (along with heliotrope) of New York's Purchase College |
| 2007-04-06 | Color close to cranberry |
| 2006-05-21 | Purple shade |
| 2005-08-28 | Purplish |
| 2005-05-04 | Purple shade |
| 2003-08-28 | Purple shade |
| 2002-03-24 | Brownish purple |
| 2001-07-15 | Brownish purple |
| 2000-01-15 | Dark red |
| 1999-06-20 | Purple shade |
| 1998-01-23 | Dark purple |
| 1996-06-22 | Purplish brown |
| 1995-11-24 | Eggplant color |
| 1995-03-20 | Purplish brown |
| 1995-01-08 | Color also called "eureka red" |
| 1994-11-18 | Brownish purple |