changing the text color of a UILabel

The question was already answered for the OP, but for the sake of other people who come here trying to change a label's text color, use the textColor property:

Swift

myLabel.textColor = UIColor.red  // or .red

Objective-C

myLabel.textColor = [UIColor redColor];

They need to be connected in Interface Builder.

You can also set the UIColor via RGB values like so:

myLabel.textColor= [UIColor colorWithRed:(160/255.0) green:(97/255.0) blue:(5/255.0) alpha:1];