diff --git a/pelican/tests/test_readers.py b/pelican/tests/test_readers.py
index 68938a83a..4372fea16 100644
--- a/pelican/tests/test_readers.py
+++ b/pelican/tests/test_readers.py
@@ -411,13 +411,12 @@ def test_typogrify_summary(self):
 
     def test_typogrify_ignore_tags(self):
         try:
-            # typogrify should be able to ignore user specified tags,
-            # but tries to be clever with widont extension
+            # typogrify should be able to ignore user specified tags.
             page = self.read_file(
                 path="article.rst", TYPOGRIFY=True, TYPOGRIFY_IGNORE_TAGS=["p"]
             )
             expected = (
-                "<p>THIS is some content. With some stuff to&nbsp;"
+                "<p>THIS is some content. With some stuff to "
                 "&quot;typogrify&quot;...</p>\n<p>Now with added "
                 'support for <abbr title="three letter acronym">'
                 "TLA</abbr>.</p>\n"
diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index f4ce80cd7..02a1d56a1 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -82,7 +82,7 @@ dev = [
     "jinja2>=3.1.2",
     "lxml>=4.9.3",
     "markdown>=3.5.1",
-    "typogrify>=2.0.7",
+    "typogrify>=2.1.0",
     "sphinx>=7.1.2",
     "sphinxext-opengraph>=0.9.0",
     "furo==2023.9.10",