diff --git a/pkg/kgo/compression.go b/pkg/kgo/compression.go
index 27bfe6db..c5f27234 100644
--- a/pkg/kgo/compression.go
+++ b/pkg/kgo/compression.go
@@ -259,10 +259,10 @@ type zstdDecoder struct {
 }
 
 func (d *decompressor) decompress(src []byte, codec byte) ([]byte, error) {
-	switch codec {
-	case 0:
+	switch codecType(codec) {
+	case codecNone:
 		return src, nil
-	case 1:
+	case codecGzip:
 		ungz := d.ungzPool.Get().(*gzip.Reader)
 		defer d.ungzPool.Put(ungz)
 		if err := ungz.Reset(bytes.NewReader(src)); err != nil {
@@ -273,12 +273,12 @@ func (d *decompressor) decompress(src []byte, codec byte) ([]byte, error) {
 			return nil, err
 		}
 		return out.Bytes(), nil
-	case 2:
+	case codecSnappy:
 		if len(src) > 16 && bytes.HasPrefix(src, xerialPfx) {
 			return xerialDecode(src)
 		}
 		return s2.Decode(nil, src)
-	case 3:
+	case codecLZ4:
 		unlz4 := d.unlz4Pool.Get().(*lz4.Reader)
 		defer d.unlz4Pool.Put(unlz4)
 		unlz4.Reset(bytes.NewReader(src))
@@ -287,7 +287,7 @@ func (d *decompressor) decompress(src []byte, codec byte) ([]byte, error) {
 			return nil, err
 		}
 		return out.Bytes(), nil
-	case 4:
+	case codecZstd:
 		unzstd := d.unzstdPool.Get().(*zstdDecoder)
 		defer d.unzstdPool.Put(unzstd)
 		return unzstd.inner.DecodeAll(src, nil)
diff --git a/pkg/kgo/record_formatter.go b/pkg/kgo/record_formatter.go
index 932cc5ce..d16427be 100644
--- a/pkg/kgo/record_formatter.go
+++ b/pkg/kgo/record_formatter.go
@@ -444,16 +444,16 @@ func NewRecordFormatter(layout string) (*RecordFormatter, error) {
 				layout = layout[len("compression}"):]
 				f.fns = append(f.fns, func(b []byte, _ *FetchPartition, r *Record) []byte {
 					return writeR(b, r, func(b []byte, r *Record) []byte {
-						switch r.Attrs.CompressionType() {
-						case 0:
+						switch codecType(r.Attrs.CompressionType()) {
+						case codecNone:
 							return append(b, "none"...)
-						case 1:
+						case codecGzip:
 							return append(b, "gzip"...)
-						case 2:
+						case codecSnappy:
 							return append(b, "snappy"...)
-						case 3:
+						case codecLZ4:
 							return append(b, "lz4"...)
-						case 4:
+						case codecZstd:
 							return append(b, "zstd"...)
 						default:
 							return append(b, "unknown"...)