To change the color of a particular face (e.g. font-lock-comment-face), use this elisp (editing where necessary):
(custom-set-faces '(font-lock-comment-face ((t (:foreground "lightblue" (background light)))) ) )
lightblue and other color names are defined in rgb.txt, included with your emacs and X installations.
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