How do I change the sidebar font color in Velocity?

A link to your site would help.

https://www.thenerdsignal.net/

Sorry. It’s not exactly live yet. Excuse the temp logo.

Hey – it’s a valid site/design! What’s there to excuse. ??
Try adding:
.sidebar li a {color:#fff;}
to style.css – substituting #fff for the color code of your choice. That will change the link color on both sidebars. Use #sidebar1 and #sidebar2 in place of .sidebar if you want to style the links differently in each sidebar.

That worked perfectly. Thank you so much. Now back to figuring out what the color that red is, so I can change the bars at the top and bottom to blue. Thanks again. Huge help.

The red color codes are #4F2228 and #4F1820. The appropriate bits of style.css are:

#header {
background-color:#4F2228;
height:40px;
margin:0 auto;
width:1018px;
}

and

#footer {
background-color:#192633;
border-top:5px solid #4F1820;
color:#FFFFFF;
font-size:9px;
padding:5px;
text-align:center;
}

If you use Firefox, try installing the Firebug add-on. It’s a huge help in these kinds of situations.

Thanks again for the help. I actually switched to a different theme that’s closer to what I need, so I have to modify it less, but this has still been incredibly helpful. Especially the Firebug tip. Thanks again.