diff --git a/src/lib/markdown.ts b/src/lib/markdown.ts
index 18c747b0f..ba9c2ae71 100644
--- a/src/lib/markdown.ts
+++ b/src/lib/markdown.ts
@@ -53,7 +53,7 @@ const footnoteReferenceMarkedExtension = {
   renderer: (token: Tokens.Generic): string =>
     `<sup class="txt-tiny footnote-ref" id="${referencePrefix}:${token.text}"><a href="#${footnotePrefix}:${token.text}">[${token.text}]</a></sup>`,
 };
-const footnoteMatch = /^\[\^([^\]]+)\]:\s([\S]*)/;
+const footnoteMatch = /^\[\^([^\]]+)\]:\s([\S].*)/;
 const footnoteMarkedExtension = {
   name: "footnote",
   level: "block",
diff --git a/tests/fixtures/repos/markdown.tar.bz2 b/tests/fixtures/repos/markdown.tar.bz2
index 04278788b..99eb2ec01 100644
Binary files a/tests/fixtures/repos/markdown.tar.bz2 and b/tests/fixtures/repos/markdown.tar.bz2 differ
diff --git a/tests/visual/desktop/markdown.spec.ts b/tests/visual/desktop/markdown.spec.ts
index a492d7024..11e18e541 100644
--- a/tests/visual/desktop/markdown.spec.ts
+++ b/tests/visual/desktop/markdown.spec.ts
@@ -103,22 +103,32 @@ test("footnotes", async ({ page }) => {
   });
   await expect(
     page.locator(
-      "text=This is an example footnote[0]. And some radicle[1] examples.",
+      "text=This is an example footnote[1]. And some radicle[2] examples.[3]",
     ),
   ).toBeVisible();
   await page.getByRole("button", { name: "Collapse" }).click();
-  await expect(page.getByText("0. https://example.com ↩")).toBeVisible();
-  await expect(page.getByText("1. https://radicle.xyz ↩")).toBeVisible();
+  await expect(page.getByText("1. https://example.com ↩")).toBeVisible();
+  await expect(page.getByText("2. https://radicle.xyz ↩")).toBeVisible();
+  await expect(
+    page.getByText(
+      "3. A corporeal grounding, though one hardly to the exclusion of the cerebral as in the erroneous sense of a mind/body dichotomy, except insofar as what is most squarely in the cerebral would land here only on the periphery of our focus. ↩",
+    ),
+  ).toBeVisible();
   await expect(page).toHaveScreenshot({ fullPage: true });
 
   await page.getByText("Code").click();
   await expect(
     page.locator(
-      "text=This is an example footnote[^0]. And some radicle[^1] examples.",
+      "text=This is an example footnote[^1]. And some radicle[^2] examples.[^3]",
+    ),
+  ).toBeVisible();
+  await expect(page.getByText("[^1]: https://example.com")).toBeVisible();
+  await expect(page.getByText("[^2]: https://radicle.xyz")).toBeVisible();
+  await expect(
+    page.getByText(
+      "[^3]: A corporeal grounding, though one hardly to the exclusion of the _cerebral_ as in the erroneous sense of a mind/body dichotomy, except insofar as what is most squarely in the cerebral would land here only on the periphery of our focus.",
     ),
   ).toBeVisible();
-  await expect(page.getByText("[^0]: https://example.com")).toBeVisible();
-  await expect(page.getByText("[^1]: https://radicle.xyz")).toBeVisible();
 });
 
 test("math", async ({ page }) => {