Text crawl in cycles, but text is dark I am pretty new to blender, but I have created a text crawl akin to the star wars crawl. I think I have everything right except for the text color. I have selected a really bright yellow, however when it is rendered it appears dark. Is there a way to make the text shadeless like you can in blenderrender or is there another way to achieve a brighter color?
Try pressing Alt-C to convert your text to a mesh object. I have found Cycles doesn't render text properly as text objects, as opposed to meshes. You could also try this shadeless material: 

This should make your text be exactly the color you had picked without affecting any other objects in your scene.