diff --git a/packages/react-devtools-shared/src/__tests__/utils-test.js b/packages/react-devtools-shared/src/__tests__/utils-test.js
index 02bc6be4657a7..383274602a1ad 100644
--- a/packages/react-devtools-shared/src/__tests__/utils-test.js
+++ b/packages/react-devtools-shared/src/__tests__/utils-test.js
@@ -121,6 +121,21 @@ describe('utils', () => {
       expect(formatWithStyles(undefined)).toEqual(undefined);
     });
 
+    it('should format non string inputs', () => {
+      expect(formatWithStyles([{foo: 'bar'}])).toEqual([{foo: 'bar'}]);
+      expect(formatWithStyles([[1, 2, 3]])).toEqual([[1, 2, 3]]);
+      expect(formatWithStyles([{foo: 'bar'}], 'color: gray')).toEqual([
+        '%c%o',
+        'color: gray',
+        {foo: 'bar'},
+      ]);
+      expect(formatWithStyles([[1, 2, 3]], 'color: gray')).toEqual([
+        '%c%o',
+        'color: gray',
+        [1, 2, 3],
+      ]);
+    });
+
     it('should bail out of strings with styles', () => {
       expect(
         formatWithStyles(['%ca', 'color: green', 'b', 'c'], 'color: gray'),
diff --git a/packages/react-devtools-shared/src/backend/utils.js b/packages/react-devtools-shared/src/backend/utils.js
index 4a01b1804b9dd..5c4b1289855b2 100644
--- a/packages/react-devtools-shared/src/backend/utils.js
+++ b/packages/react-devtools-shared/src/backend/utils.js
@@ -190,7 +190,7 @@ export function formatWithStyles(
 
   // Matches any of %(o|O|d|i|s|f), but not %%(o|O|d|i|s|f)
   const REGEXP = /([^%]|^)((%%)*)(%([oOdisf]))/g;
-  if (inputArgs[0].match(REGEXP)) {
+  if (typeof inputArgs[0] === 'string' && inputArgs[0].match(REGEXP)) {
     return [`%c${inputArgs[0]}`, style, ...inputArgs.slice(1)];
   } else {
     const firstArg = inputArgs.reduce((formatStr, elem, i) => {