Can be done, will require some editing of the templates tho. You can choose to have your navigation a different color set and the links within something like:
.nav {
color : black;
font-size : 11px;
background-color : #CFD7DA;
}
a.nav , a.nav:link , a.nav:visited , a.nav:active {
color : black;
font-size : 11px;
background-color : transparent;
}
a.nav:hover {
color : black;
font-size : 11px;
background-color : transparent;
}
Then set the navigation area to class="nav" - the same can be done for other areas as well