diff --git a/colonnade/colonnade.cabal b/colonnade/colonnade.cabal
index 512bbc1..ebfb761 100644
--- a/colonnade/colonnade.cabal
+++ b/colonnade/colonnade.cabal
@@ -17,13 +17,17 @@ library
   exposed-modules:
     Colonnade.Types
     Colonnade.Encoding
+    Colonnade.Encoding.ByteString.Char8
     Colonnade.Decoding
+    Colonnade.Decoding.ByteString.Char8
     Colonnade.Internal
     Colonnade.Internal.Ap
   build-depends:
       base >= 4.7 && < 5
     , contravariant
     , vector
+    , text
+    , bytestring
   default-language:    Haskell2010
 
 source-repository head
diff --git a/colonnade/src/Colonnade/Decoding/ByteString/Char8.hs b/colonnade/src/Colonnade/Decoding/ByteString/Char8.hs
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..be9fa27
--- /dev/null
+++ b/colonnade/src/Colonnade/Decoding/ByteString/Char8.hs
@@ -0,0 +1,26 @@
+module Colonnade.Decoding.ByteString.Char8 where
+
+import Data.ByteString (ByteString)
+import qualified Data.ByteString as ByteString
+import qualified Data.ByteString.Char8 as BC8
+
+char :: ByteString -> Either String Char
+char b = case BC8.length b of
+  1 -> Right (BC8.head b)
+  0 -> Left "cannot decode Char from empty bytestring"
+  _ -> Left "cannot decode Char from multi-character bytestring"
+
+int :: ByteString -> Either String Int
+int b = do
+  (a,bsRem) <- maybe (Left "could not parse int") Right (BC8.readInt b)
+  if ByteString.null bsRem
+    then Right a
+    else Left "found extra characters after int"
+
+bool :: ByteString -> Either String Bool
+bool b
+  | b == BC8.pack "true" = Right True
+  | b == BC8.pack "false" = Right False
+  | otherwise = Left "must be true or false"
+
+
diff --git a/colonnade/src/Colonnade/Encoding/ByteString/Char8.hs b/colonnade/src/Colonnade/Encoding/ByteString/Char8.hs
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..35df8b5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/colonnade/src/Colonnade/Encoding/ByteString/Char8.hs
@@ -0,0 +1,21 @@
+module Colonnade.Encoding.ByteString.Char8 where
+
+import Data.ByteString (ByteString)
+import qualified Data.ByteString as ByteString
+import qualified Data.ByteString.Char8 as BC8
+import qualified Data.ByteString.Builder    as Builder
+import qualified Data.ByteString.Lazy       as LByteString
+
+char :: Char -> ByteString
+char = BC8.singleton
+
+int :: Int -> ByteString
+int = LByteString.toStrict
+    . Builder.toLazyByteString 
+    . Builder.intDec
+
+bool :: Bool -> ByteString
+bool x = case x of
+  True -> BC8.pack "true"
+  False -> BC8.pack "false"
+
diff --git a/siphon/test/Test.hs b/siphon/test/Test.hs
index da4b96d..9b5db1a 100644
--- a/siphon/test/Test.hs
+++ b/siphon/test/Test.hs
@@ -19,6 +19,8 @@ import qualified Data.ByteString            as ByteString
 import qualified Data.ByteString.Char8      as BC8
 import qualified Colonnade.Decoding         as Decoding
 import qualified Colonnade.Encoding         as Encoding
+import qualified Colonnade.Decoding.ByteString.Char8 as CDB
+import qualified Colonnade.Encoding.ByteString.Char8 as CEB
 import qualified Siphon.Encoding            as SE
 import qualified Siphon.Decoding            as SD
 import qualified Siphon.Content             as SC
@@ -40,50 +42,18 @@ tests =
     ]
   ]
 
-byteStringDecodeInt :: ByteString -> Either String Int
-byteStringDecodeInt b = do
-  (a,bsRem) <- maybe (Left "could not parse int") Right (BC8.readInt b)
-  if ByteString.null bsRem
-    then Right a
-    else Left "found extra characters after int"
-
-byteStringDecodeChar :: ByteString -> Either String Char
-byteStringDecodeChar b = case BC8.length b of
-  1 -> Right (BC8.head b)
-  0 -> Left "cannot decode Char from empty bytestring"
-  _ -> Left "cannot decode Char from multi-character bytestring"
-
-byteStringDecodeBool :: ByteString -> Either String Bool
-byteStringDecodeBool b
-  | b == BC8.pack "true" = Right True
-  | b == BC8.pack "false" = Right False
-  | otherwise = Left "must be true or false"
-
-byteStringEncodeChar :: Char -> ByteString
-byteStringEncodeChar = BC8.singleton
-
-byteStringEncodeInt :: Int -> ByteString
-byteStringEncodeInt = LByteString.toStrict
-                    . Builder.toLazyByteString 
-                    . Builder.intDec
-
-byteStringEncodeBool :: Bool -> ByteString
-byteStringEncodeBool x = case x of
-  True -> BC8.pack "true"
-  False -> BC8.pack "false"
-
 
 decodingA :: Decoding Headless ByteString (Int,Char,Bool)
 decodingA = (,,)
-  <$> Decoding.headless byteStringDecodeInt
-  <*> Decoding.headless byteStringDecodeChar
-  <*> Decoding.headless byteStringDecodeBool
+  <$> Decoding.headless CDB.int
+  <*> Decoding.headless CDB.char
+  <*> Decoding.headless CDB.bool
 
 encodingA :: Encoding Headless ByteString (Int,Char,Bool)
 encodingA = contramap tripleToPairs
-  $ divided (Encoding.headless byteStringEncodeInt)
-  $ divided (Encoding.headless byteStringEncodeChar)
-  $ divided (Encoding.headless byteStringEncodeBool)
+  $ divided (Encoding.headless CEB.int)
+  $ divided (Encoding.headless CEB.char)
+  $ divided (Encoding.headless CEB.bool)
   $ conquered 
 
 tripleToPairs :: (a,b,c) -> (a,(b,(c,())))