diff --git a/dvc/command/metrics.py b/dvc/command/metrics.py
--- a/dvc/command/metrics.py
+++ b/dvc/command/metrics.py
@@ -6,12 +6,26 @@
 
 
 def show_metrics(metrics, all_branches=False, all_tags=False):
+    """
+    Args:
+        metrics (list): Where each element is either a `list`
+            if an xpath was specified, otherwise a `str`
+    """
     for branch, val in metrics.items():
         if all_branches or all_tags:
-            logger.info("{}:".format(branch))
+            logger.info("{branch}:".format(branch=branch))
 
         for fname, metric in val.items():
-            logger.info("\t{}: {}".format(fname, metric))
+            lines = metric if type(metric) is list else metric.splitlines()
+
+            if len(lines) > 1:
+                logger.info("\t{fname}:".format(fname=fname))
+
+                for line in lines:
+                    logger.info("\t\t{content}".format(content=line))
+
+            else:
+                logger.info("\t{}: {}".format(fname, metric))
 
 
 class CmdMetricsShow(CmdBase):
diff --git a/dvc/repo/metrics/show.py b/dvc/repo/metrics/show.py
--- a/dvc/repo/metrics/show.py
+++ b/dvc/repo/metrics/show.py
@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@
 
 import dvc.logger as logger
 from dvc.exceptions import OutputNotFoundError, BadMetricError, NoMetricsError
-from dvc.utils.compat import builtin_str, open
+from dvc.utils.compat import builtin_str, open, StringIO, csv_reader
 
 
 def _read_metric_json(fd, json_path):
@@ -66,13 +66,73 @@ def _read_typed_metric(typ, xpath, fd):
     return ret
 
 
+def _format_csv(content, delimiter):
+    """Format delimited text to have same column width.
+
+    Args:
+        content (str): The content of a metric.
+        delimiter (str): Value separator
+
+    Returns:
+        str: Formatted content.
+
+    Example:
+
+        >>> content = (
+            "value_mse,deviation_mse,data_set\n"
+            "0.421601,0.173461,train\n"
+            "0.67528,0.289545,testing\n"
+            "0.671502,0.297848,validation\n"
+        )
+        >>> _format_csv(content, ",")
+
+        "value_mse  deviation_mse   data_set\n"
+        "0.421601   0.173461        train\n"
+        "0.67528    0.289545        testing\n"
+        "0.671502   0.297848        validation\n"
+    """
+    reader = csv_reader(StringIO(content), delimiter=builtin_str(delimiter))
+    rows = [row for row in reader]
+    max_widths = [max(map(len, column)) for column in zip(*rows)]
+
+    lines = [
+        " ".join(
+            "{entry:{width}}".format(entry=entry, width=width + 2)
+            for entry, width in zip(row, max_widths)
+        )
+        for row in rows
+    ]
+
+    return "\n".join(lines)
+
+
+def _format_output(content, typ):
+    """Tabularize the content according to its type.
+
+    Args:
+        content (str): The content of a metric.
+        typ (str): The type of metric -- (raw|json|tsv|htsv|csv|hcsv).
+
+    Returns:
+        str: Content in a raw or tabular format.
+    """
+
+    if "csv" in str(typ):
+        return _format_csv(content, delimiter=",")
+
+    if "tsv" in str(typ):
+        return _format_csv(content, delimiter="\t")
+
+    return content
+
+
 def _read_metric(fd, typ=None, xpath=None, rel_path=None, branch=None):
     typ = typ.lower().strip() if typ else typ
     try:
         if xpath:
             return _read_typed_metric(typ, xpath.strip(), fd)
         else:
-            return fd.read().strip()
+            return _format_output(fd.read().strip(), typ)
     # Json path library has to be replaced or wrapped in
     # order to fix this too broad except clause.
     except Exception:
@@ -86,6 +146,23 @@ def _read_metric(fd, typ=None, xpath=None, rel_path=None, branch=None):
 
 
 def _collect_metrics(self, path, recursive, typ, xpath, branch):
+    """Gather all the metric outputs.
+
+    Args:
+        path (str): Path to a metric file or a directory.
+        recursive (bool): If path is a directory, do a recursive search for
+            metrics on the given path.
+        typ (str): The type of metric to search for, could be one of the
+            following (raw|json|tsv|htsv|csv|hcsv).
+        xpath (str): Path to search for.
+        branch (str): Branch to look up for metrics.
+
+    Returns:
+        list(tuple): (output, typ, xpath)
+            - output:
+            - typ:
+            - xpath:
+    """
     outs = [out for stage in self.stages() for out in stage.outs]
 
     if path:
@@ -126,6 +203,21 @@ def _read_metrics_filesystem(path, typ, xpath, rel_path, branch):
 
 
 def _read_metrics(self, metrics, branch):
+    """Read the content of each metric file and format it.
+
+    Args:
+        metrics (list): List of metric touples
+        branch (str): Branch to look up for metrics.
+
+    Returns:
+        A dict mapping keys with metrics path name and content.
+        For example:
+
+        {'metric.csv': ("value_mse  deviation_mse   data_set\n"
+                        "0.421601   0.173461        train\n"
+                        "0.67528    0.289545        testing\n"
+                        "0.671502   0.297848        validation\n")}
+    """
     res = {}
     for out, typ, xpath in metrics:
         assert out.scheme == "local"
diff --git a/dvc/utils/compat.py b/dvc/utils/compat.py
--- a/dvc/utils/compat.py
+++ b/dvc/utils/compat.py
@@ -27,18 +27,48 @@ def encode(u, encoding=None):
     return u.encode(encoding, "replace")
 
 
-# NOTE: cast_bytes_py2 is taken from
-# https://github.com/ipython/ipython_genutils
+def csv_reader(unicode_csv_data, dialect=None, **kwargs):
+    """csv.reader doesn't support Unicode input, so need to use some tricks
+    to work around this.
+
+    Source: https://docs.python.org/2/library/csv.html#csv-examples
+    """
+    import csv
+
+    dialect = dialect or csv.excel
+
+    if is_py3:
+        # Python3 supports encoding by default, so just return the object
+        for row in csv.reader(unicode_csv_data, dialect=dialect, **kwargs):
+            yield [cell for cell in row]
+
+    else:
+        # csv.py doesn't do Unicode; encode temporarily as UTF-8:
+        reader = csv.reader(
+            utf_8_encoder(unicode_csv_data), dialect=dialect, **kwargs
+        )
+        for row in reader:
+            # decode UTF-8 back to Unicode, cell by cell:
+            yield [unicode(cell, "utf-8") for cell in row]  # noqa: F821
+
+
+def utf_8_encoder(unicode_csv_data):
+    """Source: https://docs.python.org/2/library/csv.html#csv-examples"""
+    for line in unicode_csv_data:
+        yield line.encode("utf-8")
+
+
 def cast_bytes(s, encoding=None):
+    """Source: https://github.com/ipython/ipython_genutils"""
     if not isinstance(s, bytes):
         return encode(s, encoding)
     return s
 
 
-# NOTE _makedirs is taken from
-# https://github.com/python/cpython/blob/
-# 3ce3dea60646d8a5a1c952469a2eb65f937875b3/Lib/os.py#L196-L226
 def _makedirs(name, mode=0o777, exist_ok=False):
+    """Source: https://github.com/python/cpython/blob/
+        3ce3dea60646d8a5a1c952469a2eb65f937875b3/Lib/os.py#L196-L226
+    """
     head, tail = os.path.split(name)
     if not tail:
         head, tail = os.path.split(head)

diff --git a/tests/test_metrics.py b/tests/test_metrics.py
--- a/tests/test_metrics.py
+++ b/tests/test_metrics.py
@@ -1,3 +1,4 @@
+# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
 import os
 import json
 
@@ -167,6 +168,119 @@ def test_xpath_all_with_header(self):
         for b in ["foo", "bar", "baz"]:
             self.assertSequenceEqual(ret[b]["metric_hcsv"], [[b]])
 
+    def test_formatted_output(self):
+        with open("metrics.csv", "w") as fobj:
+            # Labels are in Spanish to test unicode characters
+            fobj.write(
+                "valor_mse,desviación_mse,data_set\n"
+                "0.421601,0.173461,entrenamiento\n"
+                "0.67528,0.289545,pruebas\n"
+                "0.671502,0.297848,validación\n"
+            )
+
+        with open("metrics.tsv", "w") as fobj:
+            # Contains quoted newlines to test output correctness
+            fobj.write(
+                "value_mse\tdeviation_mse\tdata_set\n"
+                "0.421601\t0.173461\ttrain\n"
+                '0.67528\t0.289545\t"test\\ning"\n'
+                "0.671502\t0.297848\tvalidation\n"
+            )
+
+        with open("metrics.json", "w") as fobj:
+            fobj.write(
+                "{\n"
+                '     "data_set": [\n'
+                '          "train",\n'
+                '          "testing",\n'
+                '          "validation"\n'
+                "     ],\n"
+                '     "deviation_mse": [\n'
+                '          "0.173461",\n'
+                '          "0.289545",\n'
+                '          "0.297848"\n'
+                "     ],\n"
+                '     "value_mse": [\n'
+                '          "0.421601",\n'
+                '          "0.67528",\n'
+                '          "0.671502"\n'
+                "     ]\n"
+                "}"
+            )
+
+        with open("metrics.txt", "w") as fobj:
+            fobj.write("ROC_AUC: 0.64\nKS: 78.9999999996\nF_SCORE: 77\n")
+
+        self.dvc.run(
+            fname="testing_metrics_output.dvc",
+            metrics_no_cache=[
+                "metrics.csv",
+                "metrics.tsv",
+                "metrics.json",
+                "metrics.txt",
+            ],
+        )
+
+        self.dvc.metrics.modify("metrics.csv", typ="csv")
+        self.dvc.metrics.modify("metrics.tsv", typ="tsv")
+        self.dvc.metrics.modify("metrics.json", typ="json")
+
+        with MockLoggerHandlers(logger.logger):
+            reset_logger_standard_output()
+
+            ret = main(["metrics", "show"])
+            self.assertEqual(ret, 0)
+
+            expected_csv = (
+                u"\tmetrics.csv:\n"
+                u"\t\tvalor_mse   desviación_mse   data_set       \n"
+                u"\t\t0.421601    0.173461         entrenamiento  \n"
+                u"\t\t0.67528     0.289545         pruebas        \n"
+                u"\t\t0.671502    0.297848         validación"
+            )
+
+            expected_tsv = (
+                "\tmetrics.tsv:\n"
+                "\t\tvalue_mse   deviation_mse   data_set    \n"
+                "\t\t0.421601    0.173461        train       \n"
+                "\t\t0.67528     0.289545        test\\ning   \n"
+                "\t\t0.671502    0.297848        validation"
+            )
+
+            expected_txt = (
+                "\tmetrics.txt:\n"
+                "\t\tROC_AUC: 0.64\n"
+                "\t\tKS: 78.9999999996\n"
+                "\t\tF_SCORE: 77\n"
+            )
+
+            expected_json = (
+                "\tmetrics.json:\n"
+                "\t\t{\n"
+                '\t\t     "data_set": [\n'
+                '\t\t          "train",\n'
+                '\t\t          "testing",\n'
+                '\t\t          "validation"\n'
+                "\t\t     ],\n"
+                '\t\t     "deviation_mse": [\n'
+                '\t\t          "0.173461",\n'
+                '\t\t          "0.289545",\n'
+                '\t\t          "0.297848"\n'
+                "\t\t     ],\n"
+                '\t\t     "value_mse": [\n'
+                '\t\t          "0.421601",\n'
+                '\t\t          "0.67528",\n'
+                '\t\t          "0.671502"\n'
+                "\t\t     ]\n"
+                "\t\t}"
+            )
+
+            stdout = logger.logger.handlers[0].stream.getvalue()
+            self.assertIn(expected_tsv, stdout)
+            self.assertIn(expected_csv, stdout)
+            self.assertIn(expected_txt, stdout)
+            self.assertIn(expected_json, stdout)
+
 
 class TestMetricsRecursive(TestDvc):
     def setUp(self):

Prettify TSV metrics output
When displaying TSV metrics output the printout is not readable:

```
	../../20181223-TrainSetZero/SanityCheck/Bravo_on_TrainSetZero.metrics: value_mse	deviation_mse	data_set
0.421601	0.173461	train
0.67528	0.289545	testing
0.671502	0.297848	validation
```

I think it would be much eaier to read if a newline were added, and the remaining text were formatted as though it had been passed via `column -t`:

```
	../../20181223-TrainSetZero/SanityCheck/Bravo_on_TrainSetZero.metrics:
value_mse  deviation_mse  data_set
0.421601   0.173461       train
0.67528    0.289545       testing
0.671502   0.297848       validation
``` 

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