diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index a67f5c2..5f35257 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -39,6 +39,7 @@ Hosted at Read The Docs: [tableprint.readthedocs.org](http://tableprint.readthed
 - `numpy`
 
 ## Version
+- 0.4.0 (May 3 2016) Adds a 'block' style
 - 0.3.2 (May 3 2016) Adds a test suite
 - 0.3.0 (May 3 2016) Adds custom styles for tables, specified by a key ('fancy_grid', 'grid', etc.)
 - 0.2.0 (May 2 2016) Adds better python2 (unicode/bytes) compatibility
diff --git a/tableprint.py b/tableprint.py
index 131993d..9423603 100644
--- a/tableprint.py
+++ b/tableprint.py
@@ -18,7 +18,7 @@ import sys
 import numpy as np
 
 __all__ = ['table', 'header', 'row', 'hr', 'top', 'bottom', 'banner', 'dataframe', 'humantime']
-__version__ = '0.3.2'
+__version__ = '0.4.0'
 
 # set up table styles
 LineStyle = namedtuple('LineStyle', ('begin', 'hline', 'sep', 'end'))
@@ -54,6 +54,12 @@ DEFAULT_STYLES = {
         bottom=LineStyle("╘", "═", "╧", "╛"),
         row=LineStyle('│', '', '│', '│'),
     ),
+    'block': TableStyle(
+        top=LineStyle('◢', '■', '■', '◣'),
+        below_header=LineStyle(' ', '━', '━', ' '),
+        bottom=LineStyle('◥', '■', '■', '◤'),
+        row=LineStyle(' ', '', ' ', ' '),
+    ),
 }
 STYLE = 'round'
 WIDTH = 11