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The Google code you use declares regular, italic, bold, and bold italic typeface (specific font) as members of the font (font family) “Ubuntu”. This implies that you use italic and bolding just as you do when using normal fonts.

You can use font-style: italic to request for italic typeface and font-weight: bold (or, equivalently, font-weight: 700) to request bolding. Note that many HTML elements imply italic or bold by default; for example, h1, strong, and th elements imply font-weight: bold.

There are other ways of using @font-face so that each typeface is declared as a font family of its own; FotSquirrel does that. But the approach applied by Google is more logical and compatible with the way fonts are generally used in HTML and in CSS.

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