diff --git a/src/__phutil_library_map__.php b/src/__phutil_library_map__.php
--- a/src/__phutil_library_map__.php
+++ b/src/__phutil_library_map__.php
@@ -162,6 +162,8 @@
     'ArcanistDifferentialDependencyGraph' => 'differential/ArcanistDifferentialDependencyGraph.php',
     'ArcanistDifferentialRevisionHash' => 'differential/constants/ArcanistDifferentialRevisionHash.php',
     'ArcanistDifferentialRevisionStatus' => 'differential/constants/ArcanistDifferentialRevisionStatus.php',
+    'ArcanistDisplayRef' => 'ref/ArcanistDisplayRef.php',
+    'ArcanistDisplayRefInterface' => 'ref/ArcanistDisplayRefInterface.php',
     'ArcanistDoubleQuoteXHPASTLinterRule' => 'lint/linter/xhpast/rules/ArcanistDoubleQuoteXHPASTLinterRule.php',
     'ArcanistDoubleQuoteXHPASTLinterRuleTestCase' => 'lint/linter/xhpast/rules/__tests__/ArcanistDoubleQuoteXHPASTLinterRuleTestCase.php',
     'ArcanistDownloadWorkflow' => 'workflow/ArcanistDownloadWorkflow.php',
@@ -441,6 +443,7 @@
     'ArcanistTasksWorkflow' => 'workflow/ArcanistTasksWorkflow.php',
     'ArcanistTautologicalExpressionXHPASTLinterRule' => 'lint/linter/xhpast/rules/ArcanistTautologicalExpressionXHPASTLinterRule.php',
     'ArcanistTautologicalExpressionXHPASTLinterRuleTestCase' => 'lint/linter/xhpast/rules/__tests__/ArcanistTautologicalExpressionXHPASTLinterRuleTestCase.php',
+    'ArcanistTerminalStringInterface' => 'xsprintf/ArcanistTerminalStringInterface.php',
     'ArcanistTestResultParser' => 'unit/parser/ArcanistTestResultParser.php',
     'ArcanistTestXHPASTLintSwitchHook' => 'lint/linter/__tests__/ArcanistTestXHPASTLintSwitchHook.php',
     'ArcanistTextLinter' => 'lint/linter/ArcanistTextLinter.php',
@@ -915,6 +918,7 @@
     'phutil_get_library_root_for_path' => 'init/lib/moduleutils.php',
     'phutil_get_signal_name' => 'future/exec/execx.php',
     'phutil_get_system_locale' => 'utils/utf8.php',
+    'phutil_glue' => 'utils/utils.php',
     'phutil_hashes_are_identical' => 'utils/utils.php',
     'phutil_http_parameter_pair' => 'utils/utils.php',
     'phutil_ini_decode' => 'utils/utils.php',
@@ -1137,6 +1141,10 @@
     'ArcanistDifferentialDependencyGraph' => 'AbstractDirectedGraph',
     'ArcanistDifferentialRevisionHash' => 'Phobject',
     'ArcanistDifferentialRevisionStatus' => 'Phobject',
+    'ArcanistDisplayRef' => array(
+      'Phobject',
+      'ArcanistTerminalStringInterface',
+    ),
     'ArcanistDoubleQuoteXHPASTLinterRule' => 'ArcanistXHPASTLinterRule',
     'ArcanistDoubleQuoteXHPASTLinterRuleTestCase' => 'ArcanistXHPASTLinterRuleTestCase',
     'ArcanistDownloadWorkflow' => 'ArcanistWorkflow',
@@ -1461,7 +1469,10 @@
     'ArcanistUselessOverridingMethodXHPASTLinterRuleTestCase' => 'ArcanistXHPASTLinterRuleTestCase',
     'ArcanistUserAbortException' => 'ArcanistUsageException',
     'ArcanistUserConfigurationSource' => 'ArcanistFilesystemConfigurationSource',
-    'ArcanistUserRef' => 'ArcanistRef',
+    'ArcanistUserRef' => array(
+      'ArcanistRef',
+      'ArcanistDisplayRefInterface',
+    ),
     'ArcanistUserSymbolHardpointQuery' => 'ArcanistWorkflowHardpointQuery',
     'ArcanistUserSymbolRef' => 'ArcanistSymbolRef',
     'ArcanistUserSymbolRefInspector' => 'ArcanistRefInspector',
diff --git a/src/ref/ArcanistDisplayRef.php b/src/ref/ArcanistDisplayRef.php
new file mode 100644
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/ref/ArcanistDisplayRef.php
@@ -0,0 +1,68 @@
+<?php
+
+final class ArcanistDisplayRef
+  extends Phobject
+  implements
+    ArcanistTerminalStringInterface {
+
+  private $ref;
+
+  public function setRef(ArcanistRef $ref) {
+    $this->ref = $ref;
+    return $this;
+  }
+
+  public function getRef() {
+    return $this->ref;
+  }
+
+  public function newTerminalString() {
+    $ref = $this->getRef();
+
+    if ($ref instanceof ArcanistDisplayRefInterface) {
+      $object_name = $ref->getDisplayRefObjectName();
+      $title = $ref->getDisplayRefTitle();
+    } else {
+      $object_name = null;
+      $title = $ref->getRefDisplayName();
+    }
+
+    if ($object_name !== null) {
+      $reserve_width = phutil_utf8_console_strlen($object_name) + 1;
+    } else {
+      $reserve_width = 0;
+    }
+
+    $marker_width = 6;
+    $display_width = phutil_console_get_terminal_width();
+
+    $usable_width = ($display_width - $marker_width - $reserve_width);
+
+    // If the terminal is extremely narrow, don't degrade so much that the
+    // output is completely unusable.
+    $usable_width = max($usable_width, 16);
+
+    // TODO: This should truncate based on console display width, not
+    // glyphs, but there's currently no "setMaximumConsoleCharacterWidth()".
+
+    $title = id(new PhutilUTF8StringTruncator())
+      ->setMaximumGlyphs($usable_width)
+      ->truncateString($title);
+
+    if ($object_name !== null) {
+      if (strlen($title)) {
+        $display_text = tsprintf('**%s** %s', $object_name, $title);
+      } else {
+        $display_text = tsprintf('**%s**', $object_name);
+      }
+    } else {
+      $display_text = $title;
+    }
+
+    $ref = $this->getRef();
+    return tsprintf(
+      "<bg:cyan>**  *  **</bg> %s\n",
+      $display_text);
+  }
+
+}
diff --git a/src/ref/ArcanistDisplayRefInterface.php b/src/ref/ArcanistDisplayRefInterface.php
new file mode 100644
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/ref/ArcanistDisplayRefInterface.php
@@ -0,0 +1,8 @@
+<?php
+
+interface ArcanistDisplayRefInterface {
+
+  public function getDisplayRefObjectName();
+  public function getDisplayRefTitle();
+
+}
diff --git a/src/ref/ArcanistRef.php b/src/ref/ArcanistRef.php
--- a/src/ref/ArcanistRef.php
+++ b/src/ref/ArcanistRef.php
@@ -5,4 +5,8 @@
 
   abstract public function getRefDisplayName();
 
+  final public function newDisplayRef() {
+    return id(new ArcanistDisplayRef())
+      ->setRef($this);
+  }
 }
diff --git a/src/ref/symbol/ArcanistSymbolRef.php b/src/ref/symbol/ArcanistSymbolRef.php
--- a/src/ref/symbol/ArcanistSymbolRef.php
+++ b/src/ref/symbol/ArcanistSymbolRef.php
@@ -36,4 +36,6 @@
     return $symbol;
   }
 
+
+
 }
diff --git a/src/ref/user/ArcanistUserRef.php b/src/ref/user/ArcanistUserRef.php
--- a/src/ref/user/ArcanistUserRef.php
+++ b/src/ref/user/ArcanistUserRef.php
@@ -1,7 +1,9 @@
 <?php
 
 final class ArcanistUserRef
-  extends ArcanistRef {
+  extends ArcanistRef
+  implements
+    ArcanistDisplayRefInterface {
 
   private $parameters;
 
@@ -21,6 +23,7 @@
 
     $parameters['fields'] = array(
       'username' => idx($parameters, 'userName'),
+      'realName' => idx($parameters, 'realName'),
     );
 
     return self::newFromConduit($parameters);
@@ -30,4 +33,24 @@
     return idxv($this->parameters, array('fields', 'username'));
   }
 
+  public function getRealName() {
+    var_dump($this->parameters);
+
+    return idxv($this->parameters, array('fields', 'realName'));
+  }
+
+  public function getDisplayRefObjectName() {
+    return '@'.$this->getUsername();
+  }
+
+  public function getDisplayRefTitle() {
+    $real_name = $this->getRealName();
+
+    if (strlen($real_name)) {
+      $real_name = sprintf('(%s)', $real_name);
+    }
+
+    return $real_name;
+  }
+
 }
diff --git a/src/utils/utils.php b/src/utils/utils.php
--- a/src/utils/utils.php
+++ b/src/utils/utils.php
@@ -1930,3 +1930,31 @@
 function phutil_encode_log($message) {
   return addcslashes($message, "\0..\37\\\177..\377");
 }
+
+/**
+ * Insert a value in between each pair of elements in a list.
+ *
+ * Keys in the input list are preserved.
+ */
+function phutil_glue(array $list, $glue) {
+  if (!$list) {
+    return $list;
+  }
+
+  $last_key = last_key($list);
+
+  $keys = array();
+  $values = array();
+
+  $tmp = $list;
+
+  foreach ($list as $key => $ignored) {
+    $keys[] = $key;
+    if ($key !== $last_key) {
+      $tmp[] = $glue;
+      $keys[] = last_key($tmp);
+    }
+  }
+
+  return array_select_keys($tmp, $keys);
+}
diff --git a/src/workflow/ArcanistInspectWorkflow.php b/src/workflow/ArcanistInspectWorkflow.php
--- a/src/workflow/ArcanistInspectWorkflow.php
+++ b/src/workflow/ArcanistInspectWorkflow.php
@@ -93,9 +93,9 @@
     $list = array();
     foreach ($all_refs as $ref) {
       $out = $this->describeRef($ref, 0);
-      $list[] = implode('', $out);
+      $list[] = $out;
     }
-    $list = implode("\n", $list);
+    $list = phutil_glue($list, "\n");
 
     echo tsprintf('%B', $list);
 
@@ -106,6 +106,7 @@
     $indent = str_repeat(' ', $depth);
 
     $out = array();
+
     $out[] = tsprintf(
       "%s+ [%s] %s\n",
       $indent,
diff --git a/src/xsprintf/ArcanistTerminalStringInterface.php b/src/xsprintf/ArcanistTerminalStringInterface.php
new file mode 100644
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/xsprintf/ArcanistTerminalStringInterface.php
@@ -0,0 +1,7 @@
+<?php
+
+interface ArcanistTerminalStringInterface {
+
+  public function newTerminalString();
+
+}
diff --git a/src/xsprintf/PhutilTerminalString.php b/src/xsprintf/PhutilTerminalString.php
--- a/src/xsprintf/PhutilTerminalString.php
+++ b/src/xsprintf/PhutilTerminalString.php
@@ -16,23 +16,47 @@
   }
 
   public function applyWrap() {
-    $string = (string)$this;
+    $string = phutil_string_cast($this);
     $string = phutil_console_wrap($string);
     return new self($string);
   }
 
   public function applyIndent($depth, $with_prefix = true) {
-    $string = (string)$this;
+    $string = phutil_string_cast($this);
     $string = phutil_console_wrap($string, $depth, $with_prefix);
     return new self($string);
   }
 
   public static function escapeStringValue($value, $allow_whitespace) {
     if ($value instanceof PhutilTerminalString) {
-      return (string)$value;
+      return phutil_string_cast($value);
     }
 
-    $value = (string)$value;
+    if ($value instanceof ArcanistTerminalStringInterface) {
+      $value = $value->newTerminalString();
+      return self::escapeStringValue($value, $allow_whitespace);
+    }
+
+    if ($value === null) {
+      return '';
+    }
+
+    if (is_array($value)) {
+      if (!$value) {
+        return '';
+      }
+
+      $parts = array();
+
+      foreach ($value as $part) {
+        $part = self::escapeStringValue($part, $allow_whitespace);
+        $parts[] = $part;
+      }
+
+      return implode('', $parts);
+    }
+
+    $value = phutil_string_cast($value);
 
     static $escape_map;
     if ($escape_map === null) {