diff --git a/library/core/src/fmt/mod.rs b/library/core/src/fmt/mod.rs
index 6fc3cd0b7c4ad..8a2a64f8dc97f 100644
--- a/library/core/src/fmt/mod.rs
+++ b/library/core/src/fmt/mod.rs
@@ -570,11 +570,30 @@ impl Display for Arguments<'_> {
 /// There are a number of helper methods on the [`Formatter`] struct to help you with manual
 /// implementations, such as [`debug_struct`].
 ///
+/// [`debug_struct`]: Formatter::debug_struct
+///
+/// Types that do not wish to use the standard suite of debug representations
+/// provided by the `Formatter` trait (`debug_struct`, `debug_tuple`,
+/// `debut_list`, `debug_set`, `debug_map`) can do something totally custom by
+/// manually writing an arbitrary representation to the `Formatter`.
+///
+/// ```
+/// # use std::fmt;
+/// # struct Point {
+/// #     x: i32,
+/// #     y: i32,
+/// # }
+/// #
+/// impl fmt::Debug for Point {
+///     fn fmt(&self, f: &mut fmt::Formatter<'_>) -> fmt::Result {
+///         write!(f, "Point [{} {}]", self.x, self.y)
+///     }
+/// }
+/// ```
+///
 /// `Debug` implementations using either `derive` or the debug builder API
 /// on [`Formatter`] support pretty-printing using the alternate flag: `{:#?}`.
 ///
-/// [`debug_struct`]: Formatter::debug_struct
-///
 /// Pretty-printing with `#?`:
 ///
 /// ```