diff --git a/deny.toml b/deny.toml
index 685fd68f93..e060441b42 100644
--- a/deny.toml
+++ b/deny.toml
@@ -23,6 +23,9 @@ allow = [
     "BSD-2-Clause",
     "CC0-1.0",
 ]
+exceptions = [
+    { name = "unicode-ident", allow = ["Unicode-DFS-2016"] },
+]
 default = "deny"
 
 [bans]