but for the life of me, I cannot make it work. I have tried changing the color in the "body style" area but it doesn't do anything. I am sure this is something right in front of my face and very simple. Can anyone tell me what I am doing wrong?
thank you,
Liz

Changing

color: #000000;

at Body, Text & Links -> Body Style

should work. You can also edit the font at various other places, to apply the font to certain parts of the layout only

Post/Page Styling -> Post Container or Post/Page Styling -> Body Box

Hi Flynn, thank you very much for your help. I have been using Body,Text and Links>Body Style and changing the color # there. After I save it, there is no change. My background color is very light and the text is about the same color(right now) but I can see that it is there, barely. If I click on the text it does show up in a different color. I think I have done somethng stupid somewhere.I'll keep trying.