diff --git a/packages/melonjs/CHANGELOG.md b/packages/melonjs/CHANGELOG.md
index a9480cb7d..71c21c2d4 100644
--- a/packages/melonjs/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/packages/melonjs/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -51,6 +51,7 @@
 - Audio: a sprite region declared looping (`[start, duration, true]`) loops when played with `audio.play(name, { sprite })`. It played only once unless `loop: true` was passed as well
 - Text: a label whose text is empty or only spaces no longer blanks the whole frame on WebGPU. Its canvas was sized 0 pixels wide, which WebGPU refuses to upload
 - Typings: `TextureAtlas#getAnimationSettings()` is typed as the settings it returns, so they pass to a `Sprite` constructor from TypeScript without a cast. It returned `object`, and `Sprite3d` typed the named animations an aseprite atlas carries as an array
+- Typings: `CanvasRenderTarget#destroy(renderer)` is typed and documented with its `renderer`, which frees the copy of the canvas uploaded to the GPU as well. It was hidden, so only the parent's `destroy()` showed, and TypeScript refused the argument
 
 ### Performance
 - Effects: sprites drawn one after the other through the same `ShaderEffect` share one draw call, as plain sprites do, even from different frames of an atlas. A uniform set to a new value draws the sprites queued before it first, so each sprite still draws with the values it was given; a `screen_texture` effect still draws each sprite on its own
diff --git a/packages/melonjs/src/video/rendertarget/canvasrendertarget.js b/packages/melonjs/src/video/rendertarget/canvasrendertarget.js
index a93da6100..3447c413f 100644
--- a/packages/melonjs/src/video/rendertarget/canvasrendertarget.js
+++ b/packages/melonjs/src/video/rendertarget/canvasrendertarget.js
@@ -77,9 +77,12 @@ function createContext(canvas, attributes) {
 }
 
 /**
- * A 2D canvas render target for offscreen texture generation.
- * Used by Text, Gradient, Light2d and Particle systems to render into
- * a canvas that is then uploaded as a WebGL texture.
+ * A 2D canvas render target: draw into it once and reuse it, as a texture,
+ * a baked background or a fog map. Make one and keep it rather than making
+ * a new one each time. The engine uses it too, for text, gradients,
+ * particle textures and tinted images. Drawn with the WebGL or WebGPU
+ * renderer, its canvas is uploaded to the GPU, and uploaded again after
+ * {@link CanvasRenderTarget#invalidate}.
  * @augments RenderTarget
  * @category Rendering
  */
@@ -204,7 +207,7 @@ class CanvasRenderTarget extends RenderTarget {
 
 	/**
 	 * Returns an ImageData object representing the underlying pixel data for a specified portion of this canvas texture.
-	 * (Note: when using getImageData(), it is highly recommended to use the `willReadFrequently` attribute when creatimg the corresponding canvas texture)
+	 * (Note: when using getImageData(), it is highly recommended to use the `willReadFrequently` attribute when creating the corresponding canvas texture)
 	 * @param {number} x - The x-axis coordinate of the top-left corner of the rectangle from which the ImageData will be extracted
 	 * @param {number} y - The y-axis coordinate of the top-left corner of the rectangle from which the ImageData will be extracted
 	 * @param {number} width - The width of the rectangle from which the ImageData will be extracted. Positive values are to the right, and negative to the left
@@ -332,10 +335,10 @@ class CanvasRenderTarget extends RenderTarget {
 	}
 
 	/**
-	 * Destroy this canvas render target and release associated GPU resources.
-	 * @param {Renderer} [renderer] - the renderer to clean up WebGL resources from
-	 * @ignore
-	 * @internal
+	 * Release this render target: its canvas, and the copy of it the
+	 * renderer uploaded to the GPU. It must not be used afterwards.
+	 * @param {Renderer} [renderer] - the renderer it was drawn with, so the
+	 * copy uploaded to the GPU is freed too
 	 */
 	destroy(renderer) {
 		// Look up the cached texture by SOURCE identity (the `canvas`
diff --git a/packages/melonjs/src/video/rendertarget/rendertarget.ts b/packages/melonjs/src/video/rendertarget/rendertarget.ts
index 83d1bd57d..eb7528b18 100644
--- a/packages/melonjs/src/video/rendertarget/rendertarget.ts
+++ b/packages/melonjs/src/video/rendertarget/rendertarget.ts
@@ -1,13 +1,12 @@
 /**
- * Abstract base class for offscreen render targets.
- * Provides a renderer-agnostic interface for binding, clearing, resizing,
- * and reading back pixel data from an offscreen surface.
- * Concrete implementations:
- * - {@link WebGLRenderTarget} — WebGL framebuffer object (FBO) for post-processing
- * - {@link CanvasRenderTarget} — 2D canvas surface for texture generation
+ * The base class of an offscreen render target: a surface the engine can
+ * draw into, clear, resize and read back, whatever the renderer.
  *
- * A future WebGPU implementation would extend this class with
- * GPUTexture / GPURenderPassDescriptor management.
+ * The one to create yourself is {@link CanvasRenderTarget}, a 2D canvas:
+ * draw something into it once (a texture, a background, a fog map) and
+ * reuse it every frame. The WebGL and WebGPU renderers keep render targets
+ * of their own for post effects (a framebuffer, a GPU texture); those are
+ * internal.
  * @category Rendering
  */
 export default abstract class RenderTarget {
@@ -24,15 +23,13 @@ export default abstract class RenderTarget {
 	/**
 	 * Bind this render target as the active draw destination.
 	 * All subsequent draw calls will render into this target until {@link unbind} is called.
-	 * No-op by default — subclasses override for GPU render targets
-	 * (a WebGL FBO today, a `GPURenderPassEncoder` once the WebGPU
-	 * renderer lands).
+	 * No-op by default: only the GPU renderers' own targets override it.
 	 */
 	bind(): void {}
 
 	/**
 	 * Unbind this render target, restoring the default (screen) output.
-	 * No-op by default — subclasses override for GPU render targets.
+	 * No-op by default: only the GPU renderers' own targets override it.
 	 */
 	unbind(): void {}
 
@@ -67,10 +64,9 @@ export default abstract class RenderTarget {
 	 *
 	 * The portable form, and the one anything backend-agnostic should use.
 	 * Synchronous readback is NOT portable: WebGPU can only map a buffer
-	 * asynchronously, so a render target of that backend cannot answer at all
-	 * until a frame has been awaited. The two backends that CAN read back
-	 * synchronously offer `getImageData()` as an extra, but it is not part of
-	 * this contract and does not exist on every target.
+	 * asynchronously, so its render targets cannot answer until a frame has
+	 * been awaited. A {@link CanvasRenderTarget} also offers
+	 * {@link CanvasRenderTarget#getImageData}, which answers at once.
 	 * @param x - x coordinate of the top-left corner (default 0)
 	 * @param y - y coordinate of the top-left corner (default 0)
 	 * @param width - width of the area to read (default full width)