Lovecraft: Post titles changing color if visited

[KokkieH]

Quick summary

With a custom accent color set, post titles display in the accent color instead of black once a post has been visited.

Steps to reproduce

1. Open the Customizer ->Colors and background
2. Set a custom accent color
3. View the blog feed page, and note the titles for unvisited posts are black, and not changing color on hover
4. Click through to a post, then return to the posts page

What you expected to happen

For the post title to still be black, as happens with the default accent color for the theme:

What actually happened

The post title shows in the accent color, changing to black on hover:

Context

Reported by a site owner in https://wordpress.com/forums/topic/visited-page-link-color/?view=all

Simple, Atomic or both?

No response

Theme-specific issue?

Lovecraft

Browser, operating system and other notes

No response

Reproducibility

Consistent

Severity

Some (< 50%)

Available workarounds?

Yes, difficult to implement

Workaround details

Custom CSS, only available to Premium Plan and above

[Greatdane]

Moved to themes, but I am not sure if this is something we can fix - it is not made by us (old free theme?).

It is, however, still an active theme!.