dumb me, thanks for firebug reminder. It works great. Also discovered if I just click on "Heading 1" in wysiwig editor, it gives me the same font (bold verdana), color (#b51a00) and size (12px) as xcart's headers on that page ("Details" and "Options").
I use
http://www.colorschemer.com/online.html to find what hex numbers look like in color.
thank you! - Val