diff --git a/richtextfx/src/main/java/org/fxmisc/richtext/CharacterHit.java b/richtextfx/src/main/java/org/fxmisc/richtext/CharacterHit.java
index a9734c3b..5a0f91cd 100644
--- a/richtextfx/src/main/java/org/fxmisc/richtext/CharacterHit.java
+++ b/richtextfx/src/main/java/org/fxmisc/richtext/CharacterHit.java
@@ -3,13 +3,16 @@
 import java.util.OptionalInt;
 
 /**
- * Object that stores information relating to the position in an area's content that corresponds to a given position
- * in some visible entity (e.g. the area, a paragraph in the area, a line on a paragraph).
+ * <p>Object that stores information relating to the position in an area's content that corresponds to a given position
+ * in some visible entity (e.g. the area, a paragraph in the area, a line on a paragraph).</p>
+ * <p>A character hit can either be before a given character (leading) or after a given character (trailing).</p>
+ * <p>A special case is planned when the character hit happens outside the boundaries of some visible entity. In this case
+ * there is an insertion index but there isn't any actual character position in the content.</p>
  */
 public class CharacterHit {
 
     /**
-     * Returns a {@link CharacterHit} for cases where the insertion occurs outside the bounds of some visible entity
+     * @return a {@link CharacterHit} for cases where the insertion occurs outside the bounds of some visible entity
      * (e.g. the area, the paragraph in an area, the line in a paragraph)
      */
     public static CharacterHit insertionAt(int insertionIndex) {
@@ -17,7 +20,10 @@ public static CharacterHit insertionAt(int insertionIndex) {
     }
 
     /**
-     * Returns a {@link CharacterHit} for cases where the hit occurs inside the bounds of some visible entity
+     * <p>Represents a hit happening before a character at a given position (meaning the character is located forward).</p>
+     * <p>Example: If you have a hit on {@code ALPHA} at position 1, it means before the character {@code L}. The character
+     * index would be 1 and the insertion would be at 1.</p>
+     * @return a {@link CharacterHit} for cases where the hit occurs inside the bounds of some visible entity
      * (e.g. the area, the paragraph in an area, the line in a paragraph) and the character is leading.
      */
     public static CharacterHit leadingHalfOf(int charIdx) {
@@ -25,14 +31,16 @@ public static CharacterHit leadingHalfOf(int charIdx) {
     }
 
     /**
-     * Returns a {@link CharacterHit} for cases where the hit occurs inside the bounds of some visible entity
+     * <p>A hit that happens after the character at the given position (meaning the character is before).</p>
+     * <p>Example: If you have a hit on {@code ALPHA} at position 1, it means after the character {@code L}. The character
+     * index would be 1 but the insertion would be at 2.</p>
+     * @return a {@link CharacterHit} for cases where the hit occurs inside the bounds of some visible entity
      * (e.g. the area, the paragraph in an area, the line in a paragraph) and the character is trailing.
      */
     public static CharacterHit trailingHalfOf(int charIdx) {
         return new CharacterHit(OptionalInt.of(charIdx), charIdx + 1);
     }
 
-
     private final OptionalInt charIdx;
     private final int insertionIndex;
 
diff --git a/richtextfx/src/main/java/org/fxmisc/richtext/model/TwoLevelNavigator.java b/richtextfx/src/main/java/org/fxmisc/richtext/model/TwoLevelNavigator.java
index 976c36b5..b93f9f37 100644
--- a/richtextfx/src/main/java/org/fxmisc/richtext/model/TwoLevelNavigator.java
+++ b/richtextfx/src/main/java/org/fxmisc/richtext/model/TwoLevelNavigator.java
@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@
 
 /**
  * Default implementation of {@link TwoDimensional} that makes it trivial to calculate a position within a
- * two dimensional object.
+ * two-dimensional object.
  */
 public class TwoLevelNavigator implements TwoDimensional {
 
diff --git a/richtextfx/src/test/java/org/fxmisc/richtext/CharacterHitTest.java b/richtextfx/src/test/java/org/fxmisc/richtext/CharacterHitTest.java
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..7723f1fc
--- /dev/null
+++ b/richtextfx/src/test/java/org/fxmisc/richtext/CharacterHitTest.java
@@ -0,0 +1,40 @@
+package org.fxmisc.richtext;
+
+import org.junit.jupiter.api.DisplayName;
+import org.junit.jupiter.api.Test;
+
+import static org.junit.jupiter.api.Assertions.assertEquals;
+import static org.junit.jupiter.api.Assertions.assertTrue;
+
+public class CharacterHitTest {
+    private void checkHitAndNoCharIndex(CharacterHit hit, int insertion) {
+        assertEquals(insertion, hit.getInsertionIndex());
+        assertTrue(hit.getCharacterIndex().isEmpty());
+    }
+
+    private void checkHit(CharacterHit hit, int insertion, int charIdx) {
+        assertEquals(insertion, hit.getInsertionIndex());
+        assertEquals(charIdx, hit.getCharacterIndex().orElseThrow());
+    }
+
+    @Test
+    @DisplayName("Character hit insertion at a given position")
+    void insertionAt() {
+        checkHitAndNoCharIndex(CharacterHit.insertionAt(2), 2);
+        checkHitAndNoCharIndex(CharacterHit.insertionAt(2).offset(12), 14);
+    }
+
+    @Test
+    @DisplayName("Character hit leading half at a given position")
+    void leadingHalfOf() {
+        checkHit(CharacterHit.leadingHalfOf(2), 2, 2);
+        checkHit(CharacterHit.leadingHalfOf(2).offset(12), 14, 14);
+    }
+
+    @Test
+    @DisplayName("Character hit trailing half at a given position")
+    void trailingHalfOf() {
+        checkHit(CharacterHit.trailingHalfOf(2), 3, 2);
+        checkHit(CharacterHit.trailingHalfOf(2).offset(12), 15, 14);
+    }
+}