I love the theme, but want to change the font color for the body of posts to something a little darker than the current mid-grey.

I’ve not been able to figure out how to do so. Any change of a pointer in the right direction? Thanks in advance!

user must manually edit header.php, which is not a good idea

Hello,
First of all, thanks for making this great theme. It’s the one I’ve been using for my site so far, and I love it.
I have a small issue, there is 1 widget area which is not displaying (and I get the message saying it is not displaying in the Customize/Widget section). This widget area is the Front Page (Main News Area). The other widget areas are displaying.
I’d like to use this Front Page area to show the most recent articles.
I made sure I had the homepage set as ? Static page ?, and not the last articles. I also made sure to put some widgets in this widget area, in Appearance/Widgets screen. Still, it is not showing up.
Do you know where the problem could come from and what I could do to solve it?
Thanks in advance for the answer!