diff --git a/Project.toml b/Project.toml
index f3fac32..12933e1 100644
--- a/Project.toml
+++ b/Project.toml
@@ -13,7 +13,9 @@ julia = "1.6"
 Distributed = "8ba89e20-285c-5b6f-9357-94700520ee1b"
 InteractiveUtils = "b77e0a4c-d291-57a0-90e8-8db25a27a240"
 Random = "9a3f8284-a2c9-5f02-9a11-845980a1fd5c"
+StyledStrings = "f489334b-da3d-4c2e-b8f0-e476e12c162b"
 Test = "8dfed614-e22c-5e08-85e1-65c5234f0b40"
+UnicodePlots = "b8865327-cd53-5732-bb35-84acbb429228"
 
 [targets]
-test = ["Test", "Random", "Distributed", "InteractiveUtils"]
+test = ["Test", "Random", "Distributed", "InteractiveUtils", "StyledStrings", "UnicodePlots"]
diff --git a/src/ProgressMeter.jl b/src/ProgressMeter.jl
index 15a9e4a..8bb5353 100644
--- a/src/ProgressMeter.jl
+++ b/src/ProgressMeter.jl
@@ -580,11 +580,21 @@ function printvalues!(p::AbstractProgress, showvalues; color = :normal, truncate
     p.numprintedvalues = 0
 
     for (name, value) in showvalues
-        msg = "\n  " * lpad(string(name) * ": ", maxwidth+2+1) * string(value)
+        string_value = "\e[0m" * if value isa Union{String, SubString{String}}
+            value
+        else
+            repr("text/plain", value; context=IOContext(PipeBuffer(), :color => true))
+        end
+        if countlines(IOBuffer(string_value)) > 1
+            # Multiline objects should go on their own line so their
+            # alignment doesn't get messed up
+            string_value = "\n" * string_value
+        end
+        msg = "\n  " * lpad(string(name) * ": ", maxwidth+2+1) * string_value
         max_len = (displaysize(p.output)::Tuple{Int,Int})[2]
         # I don't understand why the minus 1 is necessary here, but empircally
         # it is needed.
-        msg_lines = ceil(Int, (length(msg)-1) / max_len)
+        msg_lines = countlines(IOBuffer(msg))-1
         if truncate && msg_lines >= 2
             # For multibyte characters, need to index with nextind.
             printover(p.output, msg[1:nextind(msg, 1, max_len-1)] * "…", color)
diff --git a/test/test_showvalues.jl b/test/test_showvalues.jl
index a91416d..be6b1cf 100644
--- a/test/test_showvalues.jl
+++ b/test/test_showvalues.jl
@@ -1,3 +1,5 @@
+using StyledStrings, UnicodePlots
+
 for ijulia_behavior in [:warn, :clear, :append]
 
 ProgressMeter.ijulia_behavior(ijulia_behavior)
@@ -111,4 +113,19 @@ for i in 1:50
     sleep(0.1)
 end
 
-end # if
\ No newline at end of file
+println("Testing showvalues with UnicodePlot")
+prog = Progress(50; dt=1, desc="progress: ")
+for i in 1:50
+    update!(prog, i; showvalues = [("A plot", lineplot(rand(10)))])
+    sleep(0.1)
+end
+
+println("Testing showvalues with StyledStrings")
+prog = Progress(50; dt=1, desc="progress: ")
+for i in 1:50
+    str = AnnotatedString(" julia", [(2:6, :face, rand((:magenta, :red, :blue, :green)))])
+    update!(prog, i; showvalues = [("A plot", str)])
+    sleep(0.1)
+end
+    
+end # for