Twenty Twelve H1 color edit

Do not edit the theme itself. First create a child theme for your changes. Or install a custom CSS plugin.

thanks esmi, I will research the child theme issue as this is a foreign subject to me

Have a look at the link I posted above if you want to create your own child theme. Alternatively, you can download a pre-made Twenty Twelve child theme from here.

thank you for the link to the pre-made child theme, which I have installed and I am not trying to be a pain in the neck but I am still in the dark as to how to simply change the color for the headline tags. I would think this is something that should be rather simple, but I am not a code writer … just a graphics nerd looking for a specific color for the post and page headlines. I will start researching how to code this in the child style sheet.

Can we see your site with the new child theme active?

use this link, the site is brand new and I am just setting it up

If you try using Firefox with the Firebug add-on (or whatever developer tool is available in your web browser), you’ll see that the post title link colours are defined in the parent’s theme by:

a {
    color: #21759b;
    outline: medium none;
}

So in the child theme, you could use something like:

.entry-title a {
    color: #c00;
}

to turn just the title links red. If you are new to CSS and want to learn how to use it, the following are useful resources:
CSS Tutorials
Learning CSS
css-discuss.org

Not sure what colour you want the post title link to be but I’d suggest avoiding black (as they won’t stand out visually) and purple (as that’s the default colour for visited links).

thank you for your help esmi, I appreciate it

No problem. If you need a tool to select the correct hexadecimal colour codes, https://www.w3schools.com/tags/ref_colorpicker.asp is pretty simply to use.