This is a heavy slab serif inspired by similar contemporary typefaces, such as Akimoto, Bloque, Facebuster, Giza, Gravity, and Rotula. All capitals. Work in progress: diacritical marks, full set of punctuation, and more special characters will follow.

Esgaroth: or Lake-town; human settlement on the Long Lake from Tolkien's novel The Hobbit.

For some reason, my new fontstruction failed to appear on Live.

@Rob Meek: Thank you very much for the special mention. Needless to say, without the new Fontstructor features you have created, this font would have been unthinkable.

@Aeolien: Thank you very much for your comment and generous rating.

@brynda1231: There was only one download, and it was by me. I don't want to prevent people from downloading my fonts. It is merely a side effect of preventing free font sites (of junk fonts) to list my works at will.

There is not enough room for a decent lower case "s". Besides, people hardly use lower case letters of heavy slabs. Why the six hearts? Why not spades or diamonds?

Check out my other font Dwalin Stencil.

@brynda1231: It was not the ellipsis, but two quotation marks one after another. I've just added the ellipsis (...) so as to avoid confusion. I also changed letter R: it is much more streamlined now. The original version is still visible in the demo picture.

I don't want to advertise my other works here, but it was you who suggested making a stencil version of Dwalin Bold. Remember? It turned out to be quite good. However, I don't expect it to be awarded a TP because it is considered a derivative work of Dwalin Bold, what is already a TP.

Last time a saw Shadow, it was only a few letters and space filling blocks. I'll have a look again.

@Scriptoresque: I'm glad you like my work. It's interesting you recalled the strong business figure of your grandfather in association with this heavy slab serif.

Typefaces are letters dressed up in designer clothes. Each letter plays, like an actor, a part in a play: well, a character. And all characters come and go, and act together on a stage: on the paper, or screen. Naturally, as the letters appear - fully dressed in costumes according to their particular role - they are to evoke emotions, fond memories, and feelings in the reader's mind.

@brynda1231: As I wrote above, diacritical marks to support the extended Latin set are on my list. Cyrillic/Russian set would be the logical next step. I haven't seen many super heavy fonts supporting Cyrillic script. I'll sleep on it.

Demo picture: I used a wallpaper image with leaves as background. There are a plethora of beautiful images on the web with no strings attached. The text is set on 3 different layers: one for the text proper, and two for the quotation marks, respectively. I used Adobe Photoshop for the layers and optical kerning.

Q: I was quite content with my Q, but your version - I have to admit - looks better. I'm not sure I could build it with the nudging in place for overshoot.

@architaraz: I'm working on the Q, but it's not easy. There is a complex application of the nudge function and custom made bricks there for overshoot. Attempts to introduce full bricks in normal position resulted in narrow gaps which I could only shift, but not eliminate.

@TCWhite: Thank you for sharing your candid view regarding the Q. As I wrote above, I was happy with my version. One important point I have to consider: The few heavy slab serifs are very similar. The letter Q is a good opportunity to distinguish my work from the others'. I have to avoid usual designs and make this letter different (but modest).

@La police de caractère: Thank you for your comment. Yes, the pixel view accidentally reveals all the nudging. A nuisance, but small price to pay for improved control over positioning bricks. As you can see, all the rounded glyphs have their tops and bottoms nudged vertically, as well as their sides, in a few cases, nudged horizontally.

@brynda1231: Actually, that was the case before. I had to remove one set - the upper case - because the fontstruction grew too big, it no longer appeared in the preview window properly.