A lot of terminals support Unicode, so fancy can be actually fancy in such cases using block characters that produce smooth progress animation. I.e. using those

A lot of terminals support Unicode, so fancy can be actually fancy in such cases using block characters that produce smooth progress animation. I.e. using those from Left one eighth block to Full block. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Block_Elements https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Block_Elements I once added such progress bar for lgogdownloader.