diff --git a/src/Spectre.Console.Tests/Unit/MarkupTests.cs b/src/Spectre.Console.Tests/Unit/MarkupTests.cs
index 2e571c9..54b3564 100644
--- a/src/Spectre.Console.Tests/Unit/MarkupTests.cs
+++ b/src/Spectre.Console.Tests/Unit/MarkupTests.cs
@@ -7,6 +7,44 @@ namespace Spectre.Console.Tests.Unit
 {
     public sealed class MarkupTests
     {
+        public sealed class TheLengthProperty
+        {
+            [Theory]
+            [InlineData("Hello", 5)]
+            [InlineData("Hello\nWorld", 11)]
+            [InlineData("[yellow]Hello[/]", 5)]
+            public void Should_Return_The_Number_Of_Characters(string input, int expected)
+            {
+                // Given
+                var markup = new Markup(input);
+
+                // When
+                var result = markup.Length;
+
+                // Then
+                result.ShouldBe(expected);
+            }
+        }
+
+        public sealed class TheLinesProperty
+        {
+            [Theory]
+            [InlineData("Hello", 1)]
+            [InlineData("Hello\nWorld", 2)]
+            [InlineData("[yellow]Hello[/]\nWorld", 2)]
+            public void Should_Return_The_Number_Of_Lines(string input, int expected)
+            {
+                // Given
+                var markup = new Markup(input);
+
+                // When
+                var result = markup.Lines;
+
+                // Then
+                result.ShouldBe(expected);
+            }
+        }
+
         public sealed class TheEscapeMethod
         {
             [Theory]
diff --git a/src/Spectre.Console.Tests/Unit/TextTests.cs b/src/Spectre.Console.Tests/Unit/TextTests.cs
index f630e64..34a27a8 100644
--- a/src/Spectre.Console.Tests/Unit/TextTests.cs
+++ b/src/Spectre.Console.Tests/Unit/TextTests.cs
@@ -7,6 +7,42 @@ namespace Spectre.Console.Tests.Unit
 {
     public sealed class TextTests
     {
+        public sealed class TheLengthProperty
+        {
+            [Theory]
+            [InlineData("Hello", 5)]
+            [InlineData("Hello\nWorld", 11)]
+            public void Should_Return_The_Number_Of_Characters(string input, int expected)
+            {
+                // Given
+                var markup = new Text(input);
+
+                // When
+                var result = markup.Length;
+
+                // Then
+                result.ShouldBe(expected);
+            }
+        }
+
+        public sealed class TheLinesProperty
+        {
+            [Theory]
+            [InlineData("Hello", 1)]
+            [InlineData("Hello\nWorld", 2)]
+            public void Should_Return_The_Number_Of_Lines(string input, int expected)
+            {
+                // Given
+                var markup = new Text(input);
+
+                // When
+                var result = markup.Lines;
+
+                // Then
+                result.ShouldBe(expected);
+            }
+        }
+
         [Fact]
         public void Should_Consider_The_Longest_Word_As_Minimum_Width()
         {
diff --git a/src/Spectre.Console/Cli/Internal/Composer.cs b/src/Spectre.Console/Cli/Internal/Composer.cs
index abdb3a3..962c1a1 100644
--- a/src/Spectre.Console/Cli/Internal/Composer.cs
+++ b/src/Spectre.Console/Cli/Internal/Composer.cs
@@ -71,7 +71,7 @@ namespace Spectre.Console.Cli
         {
             for (var i = 0; i < count; i++)
             {
-                _content.Append(Environment.NewLine);
+                _content.Append('\n');
             }
 
             return this;
diff --git a/src/Spectre.Console/Extensions/AnsiConsoleExtensions.Markup.cs b/src/Spectre.Console/Extensions/AnsiConsoleExtensions.Markup.cs
index 1f2f8a9..5e9000d 100644
--- a/src/Spectre.Console/Extensions/AnsiConsoleExtensions.Markup.cs
+++ b/src/Spectre.Console/Extensions/AnsiConsoleExtensions.Markup.cs
@@ -59,7 +59,7 @@ namespace Spectre.Console
         /// <param name="value">The value to write.</param>
         public static void MarkupLine(this IAnsiConsole console, string value)
         {
-            Markup(console, value + Environment.NewLine);
+            Markup(console, value + "\n");
         }
 
         /// <summary>
@@ -71,7 +71,7 @@ namespace Spectre.Console
         /// <param name="args">An array of objects to write.</param>
         public static void MarkupLine(this IAnsiConsole console, IFormatProvider provider, string format, params object[] args)
         {
-            Markup(console, provider, format + Environment.NewLine, args);
+            Markup(console, provider, format + "\n", args);
         }
     }
 }
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/src/Spectre.Console/Extensions/AnsiConsoleExtensions.cs b/src/Spectre.Console/Extensions/AnsiConsoleExtensions.cs
index b91b813..0f7c1be 100644
--- a/src/Spectre.Console/Extensions/AnsiConsoleExtensions.cs
+++ b/src/Spectre.Console/Extensions/AnsiConsoleExtensions.cs
@@ -73,7 +73,7 @@ namespace Spectre.Console
                 throw new ArgumentNullException(nameof(console));
             }
 
-            console.Write(new Text(Environment.NewLine, Style.Plain));
+            console.Write(new Text("\n", Style.Plain));
         }
 
         /// <summary>
@@ -104,7 +104,7 @@ namespace Spectre.Console
                 throw new ArgumentNullException(nameof(text));
             }
 
-            console.Write(text + Environment.NewLine, style);
+            console.Write(text + "\n", style);
         }
     }
 }
diff --git a/src/Spectre.Console/Extensions/StringExtensions.cs b/src/Spectre.Console/Extensions/StringExtensions.cs
index d7db267..4a08881 100644
--- a/src/Spectre.Console/Extensions/StringExtensions.cs
+++ b/src/Spectre.Console/Extensions/StringExtensions.cs
@@ -11,11 +11,6 @@ namespace Spectre.Console
     /// </summary>
     public static class StringExtensions
     {
-        // Cache whether or not internally normalized line endings
-        // already are normalized. No reason to do yet another replace if it is.
-        private static readonly bool _alreadyNormalized
-            = Environment.NewLine.Equals("\n", StringComparison.OrdinalIgnoreCase);
-
         /// <summary>
         /// Escapes text so that it won’t be interpreted as markup.
         /// </summary>
@@ -91,12 +86,6 @@ namespace Spectre.Console
         {
             text = text?.ReplaceExact("\r\n", "\n");
             text ??= string.Empty;
-
-            if (native && !_alreadyNormalized)
-            {
-                text = text.ReplaceExact("\n", Environment.NewLine);
-            }
-
             return text;
         }
 
diff --git a/src/Spectre.Console/Internal/Backends/Ansi/AnsiBuilder.cs b/src/Spectre.Console/Internal/Backends/Ansi/AnsiBuilder.cs
index e30923a..ef8267a 100644
--- a/src/Spectre.Console/Internal/Backends/Ansi/AnsiBuilder.cs
+++ b/src/Spectre.Console/Internal/Backends/Ansi/AnsiBuilder.cs
@@ -36,7 +36,7 @@ namespace Spectre.Console
 
                     if (!last)
                     {
-                        builder.Append(Environment.NewLine);
+                        builder.Append('\n');
                     }
                 }
             }
diff --git a/src/Spectre.Console/Rendering/Segment.cs b/src/Spectre.Console/Rendering/Segment.cs
index ad2fb63..1984f8a 100644
--- a/src/Spectre.Console/Rendering/Segment.cs
+++ b/src/Spectre.Console/Rendering/Segment.cs
@@ -44,7 +44,7 @@ namespace Spectre.Console.Rendering
         /// <summary>
         /// Gets a segment representing a line break.
         /// </summary>
-        public static Segment LineBreak { get; } = new Segment(Environment.NewLine, Style.Plain, true, false);
+        public static Segment LineBreak { get; } = new Segment("\n", Style.Plain, true, false);
 
         /// <summary>
         /// Gets an empty segment.
diff --git a/src/Spectre.Console/Widgets/Markup.cs b/src/Spectre.Console/Widgets/Markup.cs
index d52ca32..5dc0e5c 100644
--- a/src/Spectre.Console/Widgets/Markup.cs
+++ b/src/Spectre.Console/Widgets/Markup.cs
@@ -27,6 +27,16 @@ namespace Spectre.Console
             set => _paragraph.Overflow = value;
         }
 
+        /// <summary>
+        /// Gets the character count.
+        /// </summary>
+        public int Length => _paragraph.Length;
+
+        /// <summary>
+        /// Gets the number of lines.
+        /// </summary>
+        public int Lines => _paragraph.Lines;
+
         /// <summary>
         /// Initializes a new instance of the <see cref="Markup"/> class.
         /// </summary>
diff --git a/src/Spectre.Console/Widgets/Paragraph.cs b/src/Spectre.Console/Widgets/Paragraph.cs
index c6a2abf..78f4bb1 100644
--- a/src/Spectre.Console/Widgets/Paragraph.cs
+++ b/src/Spectre.Console/Widgets/Paragraph.cs
@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@ using System;
 using System.Collections.Generic;
 using System.Diagnostics;
 using System.Linq;
+using System.Text;
 using Spectre.Console.Rendering;
 
 namespace Spectre.Console
@@ -25,6 +26,16 @@ namespace Spectre.Console
         /// </summary>
         public Overflow? Overflow { get; set; }
 
+        /// <summary>
+        /// Gets the character count of the paragraph.
+        /// </summary>
+        public int Length => _lines.Sum(line => line.Length) + Math.Max(0, Lines - 1);
+
+        /// <summary>
+        /// Gets the number of lines in the paragraph.
+        /// </summary>
+        public int Lines => _lines.Count;
+
         /// <summary>
         /// Initializes a new instance of the <see cref="Paragraph"/> class.
         /// </summary>
diff --git a/src/Spectre.Console/Widgets/Progress/Renderers/FallbackStatusRenderer.cs b/src/Spectre.Console/Widgets/Progress/Renderers/FallbackStatusRenderer.cs
index 4b10c10..f5a380b 100644
--- a/src/Spectre.Console/Widgets/Progress/Renderers/FallbackStatusRenderer.cs
+++ b/src/Spectre.Console/Widgets/Progress/Renderers/FallbackStatusRenderer.cs
@@ -29,7 +29,7 @@ namespace Spectre.Console
                     if (_lastStatus != task.Description)
                     {
                         _lastStatus = task.Description;
-                        _renderable = new Markup(task.Description + Environment.NewLine);
+                        _renderable = new Markup(task.Description + "\n");
                         return;
                     }
                 }
diff --git a/src/Spectre.Console/Widgets/Text.cs b/src/Spectre.Console/Widgets/Text.cs
index bb60f5e..3ff232c 100644
--- a/src/Spectre.Console/Widgets/Text.cs
+++ b/src/Spectre.Console/Widgets/Text.cs
@@ -47,6 +47,16 @@ namespace Spectre.Console
             set => _paragraph.Overflow = value;
         }
 
+        /// <summary>
+        /// Gets the character count.
+        /// </summary>
+        public int Length => _paragraph.Length;
+
+        /// <summary>
+        /// Gets the number of lines in the text.
+        /// </summary>
+        public int Lines => _paragraph.Lines;
+
         /// <inheritdoc/>
         protected override Measurement Measure(RenderContext context, int maxWidth)
         {