Express allows you to customize each section of the homepage via post options and widget options, which allow you to change the text and background colors/images.

The WordPress Customizer allows you to change the interior post and page element colors such as background, text and links and can be found under Appearance → Customize. To enable custom colors, begin by expanding the General Options and choose No to use Theme Defaults.

Custom CSS Option

You may also use the Custom CSS field in Theme Options to apply custom styling to any aspect of the theme. Refer to the following on techniques for building custom styles:

The following styles cover basic elements on interior pages and may be edited with your desired colors, then pasted into the Custom CSS box, one per line.

Header background:

#header-container{background: #3498DB;}

Menu Link Text:

#menu-drop-button{color: #FFFFFF;}

Menu button background:

#menu-drop-button{background: #3498DB;}

Titles:

.post-container .post-title a{color: #000000;}
.post-container .post-title a:hover{color: #3498DB;}

Content background:

#wrapper{background: #FFFFFF;}

Post content:

p, .copy, .copy ul li{color: #595959;}

Links:

a{color: #3498DB;}

a:hover{color: #555555;}

.copy a, .author-content .author-name a{color: #3498DB;}

.copy a: hover, .author-content .author-name a:hover{color: #555555;}

.comment .comment-edit-link{color: #3498DB;}

.comment .comment-edit-link:hover{color: #555555;}

Post Meta:

.post-date, .comment .date, #respond .comment-notes, #respond .logged-in-as{color: #999;}

Comments Title:

#comments .comments-title, #respond #reply-title{color: #111111;}

Reply:

.comment .reply a{background: #f0f0f0; color: #000000;}

Commenter’s name:

.comment .fn a{color: #000000;}

.comment .fn a:hover{color: #3498DB;}

Comment Form labels:

#respond label{color: #111111;}

Input fields:

textarea, input, button{background: #FFFFFF;  color: #595959;  border-color: #E8E8E8;}

Buttons:

button, input[type="button"], input[type="submit"]{ background: #3498DB; color: #FFFFFF;}

Footer:

#footer-base-container{background: #333333;}

.footer-text{color: #595959;}

Sidebar:

#sidebar-container{background: #111111; color: #888888;}

Sidebar Links:

#sidebar-container a{color: #888888;}

Menu border:

ul#nav{border-color:  #333333;}

#sidebar-container a:hover{color: #3498DB;}