Blockbase Themes - Navigation Text Color unchangeable

[cuemarie]

Quick summary

In blockbase themes like Zoologist and Quadrat, I'm unable to change the color of the Navigation items, using either the block editor tools or the Global Styles > Colors > Links.

Steps to reproduce

1. Activate a Blockbase child theme, such as Zoologist
2. Open the Site Editor
3. Change the text color of the navigation block in the editor
4. Save the change and view the live site

Part Two

5. Return to the editor and open Styles > Color > Links
6. Set link and hover colors

What you expected to happen

The live site and site editor to match the color I selected

Part Two

My secondary expectation was that the Global styles would be where I change the color of the navigation block's text.

What actually happened

The Navigation block text changes in the editor, but the live site color does not change.

Part Two

The global styles link colors also do not apply to the navigation block's text color.

Impact

Some (< 50%)

Available workarounds?

Yes, difficult to implement

Platform (Simple and/or Atomic)

Simple, Atomic

Logs or notes

Replicated with Zoologist and Quadrat on AT (other FSE themes like Appleton did not present the issue)
Replicated with Zoologist on Simple

Could not replicate using Blockbase on a self-hosted site. In this environment, the navigation block's text color correctly changed when I updated it's block settings > text color

Workaround

CSS workaround to resolve, but there's not an in-editor way to change the color of the navigation block's text.

[cuemarie]

User reports from Automattic/themes#6195

• 6067313-zd-woothemes (Zoologist)
• 6067364-zd-woothemes (Zoologist)
• 6068609-zd-woothemes (Zoologist)
• 6074726-zd-woothemes (Zoologist)

All these users were provided CSS as a solution for now.

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[cuemarie]

Closing as dupe of #74984

Issues noted here copied over to that report's comments