diff --git a/packages/types/src/create/createType.spec.ts b/packages/types/src/create/createType.spec.ts
index 8e5be72e85..3757fd65b6 100644
--- a/packages/types/src/create/createType.spec.ts
+++ b/packages/types/src/create/createType.spec.ts
@@ -122,6 +122,26 @@ describe('createType', (): void => {
     ).toEqual(new Uint8Array([0x00, 0x12, 0x00, 0x23, 0x00, 0x45, 0x00, 0x67]));
   });
 
+  describe('isPedantic', (): void => {
+    it('correctly decodes Bytes', (): void => {
+      expect(
+        createTypeUnsafe(registry, 'Bytes', ['0x12345678'], { isPedantic: true })
+      ).toBeDefined();
+    });
+
+    it('correctly decodes Bytes (prefixed)', (): void => {
+      expect(
+        createTypeUnsafe(registry, 'Bytes', [new Uint8Array([4 << 2, 1, 2, 3, 4])], { isPedantic: true })
+      ).toBeDefined();
+    });
+
+    it('correctly decodes Text', (): void => {
+      expect(
+        createTypeUnsafe(registry, 'Text', ['0x2070726f7669646572'], { isPedantic: true })
+      ).toBeDefined();
+    });
+  });
+
   describe('instanceof', (): void => {
     it('instanceof should work (primitive type)', (): void => {
       const value = registry.createType('Balance', 1234);
diff --git a/packages/types/src/create/createType.ts b/packages/types/src/create/createType.ts
index 0eb0b8c328..633b41f79c 100644
--- a/packages/types/src/create/createType.ts
+++ b/packages/types/src/create/createType.ts
@@ -1,6 +1,7 @@
 // Copyright 2017-2021 @polkadot/types authors & contributors
 // SPDX-License-Identifier: Apache-2.0
 
+import type { Bytes } from '../primitive/Bytes';
 import type { Codec, Constructor, InterfaceTypes, Registry } from '../types';
 import type { FromReg } from './types';
 
@@ -19,8 +20,15 @@ interface CreateOptions {
 function checkInstance<T extends Codec = Codec, K extends string = string> (value: Uint8Array, created: FromReg<T, K>): void {
   const u8a = created.toU8a();
   const rawType = created.toRawType();
-  const isEqual = rawType === 'Bytes'
-    ? value.length === u8a.length
+
+  // for length-prefixed byte types, just check the length, else the full encoding
+  const isEqual = ['Bytes', 'Text'].includes(rawType)
+    ? [
+      // input was via hex, we don't have a prefix
+      (created as Bytes).length,
+      // input was raw bytes, we do have a prefix
+      u8a.length
+    ].includes(value.length)
     : u8aEq(value, u8a);
 
   assert(isEqual, () => `${rawType}:: Decoded input doesn't match input, received ${u8aToHex(value, 512)} (${value.length} bytes), created ${u8aToHex(u8a, 512)} (${u8a.length} bytes)`);