I tried searching for the correct terms to use in the CSS form - is there a list somewhere?

Each theme is unique. The easiest way to figure out what selectors to use in a WordPress.com CSS update is to start by checking your theme's original stylesheet. Use the web inspector which is built in to modern browsers by right-clicking and choosing "Inspect Element"—it will show you all the CSS related to the thing you right-clicked and it's super handy!

To add to houstonweaver's suggestion, you may also want to change the color for the comments title too—it's above past comments if they exist and says something like "2 Responses." Here's a CSS example to try which will change the color of the comments and comment form titles like "Leave a Reply" as well as the borders below them:

#comments-title,
#respond h3 {
	color: black;
}

#comments-title, #reply-title {
	border-color: black;
}

#reply-title {color:#ff0000;}

Use your own color of course.

Here is one color picker. I like it because you can get a lot of shades of your chosen color.
http://www.w3schools.com/tags/ref_colorpicker.asp

These are 3 ways to change fonts on wordpress.com blogs.

(1) Changing font families, colors and size in text in posts or pages either post by post or page by page by coding into the HTML editor. http://en.support.wordpress.com/editors/font-size-color/

(2) Changing font colors in text in posts or pages either post by post or page by page using the #4 icon (Select text color – change the text color) in Row 2 the Visual editor. http://en.support.wordpress.com/visual-editor/#row-2

(3) Changing all font families, colors and sizes throughout the whole blog by purchasing an annually renewable Custom Design upgrade and using Typekit Fonts with Staff support. http://en.support.wordpress.com/custom-design/

Note: A few themes do provide for changing font color in the Blog Title and/or optional Tagline and/or links. In the majority of themes font changes to font families, colors and size in the blog title, tagline, menu, post titles, page titles, categories and tags, widget headings, comments, and links cannot be done without CSS editing.

Interesting instruction. I was doing live preview, and then attempting to transact immediately afterwards. Could this cause a problem?

I selected a background color, a type color, and a header photo. (The total lack of functionality for dropping the photo was most frustrating; no of the photos tried would crop or position as I wished.) When I got the preview close to useable, I attempted to purchase. That's when the error msg appeared, saying my "attempt had failed. Please try again."

Also, I've looked at the premium themes, and selected one. When I try to purchase it after inputing my background color and header photo, it won't transact. How strange that Lifestyle premium theme doesn't want my money!

~eric.

These are 3 ways to change fonts on wordpress.com blogs.

(1) Changing font families, colors and size in text in posts or pages either post by post or page by page by coding into the HTML editor. http://en.support.wordpress.com/editors/font-size-color/

(2) Changing font colors in text in posts or pages either post by post or page by page using the #4 icon (Select text color – change the text color) in Row 2 the Visual editor. http://en.support.wordpress.com/visual-editor/#row-2

(3) Changing all font families, colors and sizes throughout the whole blog by purchasing an annually renewable Custom Design upgrade and using Typekit Fonts with Staff support. http://en.support.wordpress.com/custom-design/

Note: A few themes do provide for changing font color in the Blog Title and/or optional Tagline and/or links. In the majority of themes font changes to font families, colors and size in the blog title, tagline, menu, post titles, page titles, categories and tags, widget headings, comments, and links cannot be done without CSS editing.

Could someone please provide code that works for changing font face.

If you are expecting to be able to click a button and change fonts throughout your blog then it’s not that easily done. These are 3 ways to change fonts on wordpress.com blogs.

(1) Changing font families, colors and size in text in posts or pages either post by post or page by page by coding into the HTML editor. http://en.support.wordpress.com/editors/font-size-color/

(2) Changing font colors in text in posts or pages either post by post or page by page using the #4 icon (Select text color – change the text color) in Row 2 the Visual editor. http://en.support.wordpress.com/visual-editor/#row-2

(3) Changing all font families, colors and sizes throughout the whole blog by purchasing an annually renewable Custom Design upgrade and using Typekit Fonts with Staff support. http://en.support.wordpress.com/custom-design/

Note: A few themes do provide for changing font color in the Blog Title and/or optional Tagline and/or links. In the majority of themes font changes to font families, colors and size in the blog title, tagline, menu, post titles, page titles, categories and tags, widget headings, comments, and links cannot be done without CSS editing.

#header .search-form-holder {
display: none;
}

Have used your code on my blog: http://hello-poppet.com and it works great. The only other thing I'd like to do now is remove the search fields, either one. Just so there's no double up, what's the easiest way to do that?

#header-image a img {
	display: none;
}
#header-image {
	width: 945px;
	height: 150px;
}
#header-image a {
	background: url(IMAGE_URL);
	margin-left: 100px;
	width: 945px;
	height: 150px;
	position: absolute;
	top: 0;
	left: 0;
]

Replace IMAGE_URL with the URL of an image that you upload to your media library. Replace the width and height with the dimensions of your new image.

The logo that was designed for me is appearing really small- what size should I be requesting it? I want the font to appear larger

.wrapper {
overflow: hidden;
}

To do this all right, it would require remaking any header smaller so that it did not overflow to the right and then putting it directly into the CSS rather than using the header uploader feature.

`#header-image img {
margin-left: 100px;
}

Can I also move the header so that the alignment starts where the Home/About pages start?

I also have a search button appearing twice?

#header hgroup {
display: none;
}

.wrapper {
position: relative;
}

.middle {
padding-top: 50px;
}

#header-image {
margin-top: 5px;
}

#header {
padding: 0 0 0 160px;
position: absolute;
top: 170px;
}

I've found the code to hide the blog title but the header image sits way too low. How do I move the header image to where the header title is at?

Also- what is the name for the About/Home links and how do I move these below the header line?