diff --git a/app/assets/stylesheets/specific/notes.css.scss b/app/assets/stylesheets/specific/notes.css.scss
index a3894a091..4e80db15d 100644
--- a/app/assets/stylesheets/specific/notes.css.scss
+++ b/app/assets/stylesheets/specific/notes.css.scss
@@ -17,6 +17,18 @@ div#note-container {
       font-size: 0.8em;
       color: gray;
     }
+    
+    b {
+      font-weight: bold;
+    }
+    
+    i {
+      font-style: italic;
+    }
+    
+    small {
+      font-size: 0.8em;
+    }
   }
   
   div.note-box {
diff --git a/app/logical/d_text.rb b/app/logical/d_text.rb
index 732170318..e3fc6d4ff 100644
--- a/app/logical/d_text.rb
+++ b/app/logical/d_text.rb
@@ -199,7 +199,7 @@ class DText
   def self.sanitize(text)
     Sanitize.clean(
       text,
-      :elements => %w(tn h1 h2 h3 h4 h5 h6 a span div blockquote br p ul li ol em strong small big b i font),
+      :elements => %w(tn h1 h2 h3 h4 h5 h6 a span div blockquote br p ul li ol em strong small b i),
       :attributes => {
         "a" => %w(href title style),
         "span" => %w(class style),