I've created a red theme for my website and have anything as I want it except the link colors. I've poured through the css in the blue theme w/o success. I've found it's necessary to directly edit the default theme in some cases but haven't been successful there either.

Anyone succeeded in changing link colors? If so, how?

Here's what I have right now. The blue links don't look like the rest of my site.

What you seek it's the color: #428bca ?
Open sites>default>themes>default>less>bootstrap.less
It should be

a{color:#428bca
and right behind the blue hover color
a:focus{color:#2a6496

Thank you James!