Thanks so much for the reply Matt J.
I hadn't actually solved it. I actually just rebuilt the multistep form using inputflow and got it to work. But ideally I'd be able to use free version of formly for what I need.
The issue is that I'm using it on a website at work that doesn't use the style guide and already has it's own styles created. So I don't want to screw with what is already there by adding the client first style guide to the site. It sucks because that is normally the first thing I'd do when starting any new project (I'm working on persuading them to implement CF)
I actually tried reseting the color value and that doesn't seem to work. When I click on "color" where there is normally the option to reset, it tells me to go to the class where it is inheriting the color from but don't seem to be able to do it.
I'm thinking the best fix here might be to use the Relume Style Guide v1.5 and not have to worry about color variables. I'll give that a shot and see how it goes.
Thanks again!