diff --git a/servant-blaze/src/Servant/HTML/Blaze.hs b/servant-blaze/src/Servant/HTML/Blaze.hs
index d13af84c..7870022d 100644
--- a/servant-blaze/src/Servant/HTML/Blaze.hs
+++ b/servant-blaze/src/Servant/HTML/Blaze.hs
@@ -25,7 +25,7 @@ import           Text.Blaze.Html.Renderer.Utf8 (renderHtml)
 
 data HTML deriving Typeable
 
--- | @text/plain;charset=utf-8@
+-- | @text/html;charset=utf-8@
 instance Accept HTML where
     contentType _ = "text" M.// "html" M./: ("charset", "utf-8")
 
diff --git a/servant-lucid/src/Servant/HTML/Lucid.hs b/servant-lucid/src/Servant/HTML/Lucid.hs
index 7fa39709..f222c6ac 100644
--- a/servant-lucid/src/Servant/HTML/Lucid.hs
+++ b/servant-lucid/src/Servant/HTML/Lucid.hs
@@ -24,7 +24,7 @@ import           Servant.API        (Accept (..), MimeRender (..))
 
 data HTML deriving Typeable
 
--- | @text/plain;charset=utf-8@
+-- | @text/html;charset=utf-8@
 instance Accept HTML where
     contentType _ = "text" M.// "html" M./: ("charset", "utf-8")