diff --git a/IPython/frontend/html/notebook/static/css/boilerplate.css b/IPython/frontend/html/notebook/static/css/boilerplate.css
index 9fa1ee5..fc28a05 100644
--- a/IPython/frontend/html/notebook/static/css/boilerplate.css
+++ b/IPython/frontend/html/notebook/static/css/boilerplate.css
@@ -70,4 +70,10 @@ select, input, textarea, button { font:99% sans-serif; }
    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MediaWiki_talk:Common.css/Archive_11#Teletype_style_fix_for_Chrome */
 pre, code, kbd, samp { font-family: monospace, sans-serif; }
 
+i {
+    font-variant: italic;
+}
 
+b {
+    font-weight:bold;
+}