Hey
BamaPainGirl.
Yes, there's a way without html.
Click reply (don't use the little quick reply screen to do this) and go to the full size reply screen. The one that shows the smiley faces, the bold / italics / underline buttons, the insert pic / video buttons, and the font controls.
At the far right, there's a drop down box that says "change color." Click on that and use a color.
A friendly advice though: most people have a hard time reading posts when the font color is too light, yellow is a hard color to read for instance. I suggest you use the darker colors. Other than that, have fun playing with the
rainbow!