diff --git a/cache/src/main/scala/coursier/TermDisplay.scala b/cache/src/main/scala/coursier/TermDisplay.scala
index e70986f05..3c6d67ac9 100644
--- a/cache/src/main/scala/coursier/TermDisplay.scala
+++ b/cache/src/main/scala/coursier/TermDisplay.scala
@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@ import scala.collection.mutable.ArrayBuffer
 
 class TermDisplay(
   out: Writer,
-  var fallbackMode: Boolean = false
+  var fallbackMode: Boolean = sys.env.get("COURSIER_NO_TERM").nonEmpty
 ) extends Cache.Logger {
 
   private val ansi = new Ansi(out)
diff --git a/plugin/src/main/scala-2.10/coursier/Tasks.scala b/plugin/src/main/scala-2.10/coursier/Tasks.scala
index 78eb8d7a7..3804105c0 100644
--- a/plugin/src/main/scala-2.10/coursier/Tasks.scala
+++ b/plugin/src/main/scala-2.10/coursier/Tasks.scala
@@ -261,10 +261,7 @@ object Tasks {
 
         val pool = Executors.newFixedThreadPool(parallelDownloads, Strategy.DefaultDaemonThreadFactory)
 
-        def createLogger() = new TermDisplay(
-          new OutputStreamWriter(System.err),
-          fallbackMode = sys.env.get("COURSIER_NO_TERM").nonEmpty
-        )
+        def createLogger() = new TermDisplay(new OutputStreamWriter(System.err))
 
         val resLogger = createLogger()