How to override default navbar link colors of Bootstrap 5 to custom color

How much ever I tried to change the color of the navbar links in Bootstrap 5, it never did the change. To do the change, the following had to be done in the CSS stylesheet file.

.nav-link {
   color: #dfb97c !important;
}

!important allows the default color given by Bootstrap 5 to be overridden by the custom color #dfb97c.

Do the same for navbar-brand.

.navbar-brand {
   color: #dfb97c !important;
}