Textframe bugs out, and won't change color. Had to make new text boxes
Found a bug where a specific text box will NOT ovewrite the color of the text. I tried deleting paragraph styles, making new paragraph styles with different color, character styles and eyedropper tool. I can change weight, italics etc but the color would NOT change, despite the changes appearing in the appearance panels and other areas. Fixed by making new text boxes and moving the copy to those, but an annoying bug for sure.
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Based on your screenshot of the Appearance panel, the text has an additional fill applied on the object level. This renders one more fill for all characters, above their own fill, covering them completely. To fix this, you’d have to select the text object and use Clear Appearance button in the panel. You can go to the parent level of the text also by clicking the 'Type' row at its top when editing the text. The small icon with black and white fill-stroke signals the text has custom appearance, otherwise it’d have 'no appearance' there.
I believe you figured this out long ago, just wanted to make sure.