The week in links 20/02/09

Links found in the treasure trove of a long lost sailor. Pure gold.

1/​  Twecipe (twecipe​.com)
     Give it the ingredients and it’ll give you a tasty meal.
2/​  Color Scheme Designer 3 (colorschemedesigner​.com)
     This gives back some pretty brilliant colour schemes.
3/​  iFont, iPhone (ilovetypography​.com)
     The great WhatTheFont font recognition comes to the iPhone.
4/​  10 Sites For Free Vector Files (nextdayflyers​.com)
     Some useful places for vectors.
5/​  104 Free Fonts For Web Designers And Logo Artists (instantshift​.com)
     There are loads of free fonts on the web, here’s a big selection of good ones.

6/​  Keyboard Layout Source File (vectorss​.com)
     Never know when you’ll need a vector key map, or maybe you do.
7/​  Minimalism Around The Web: Design Inspiration & WordPress Themes (tutorial9​.net)
     I’m a big fan of minimalism so I loved this article.
8/​  49 Beautiful Webdesigns: Made In Belgium! (tndmedia​.nl)
     Beautiful design is universal, here’s what Belgium can make.
9/​  26 Horizontal Websites (inspiredology​.com)
     Not all websites follow the scrolling norm, here’s the best of those.
10/​  Twitter Suspended — The Full Story (minervity​.com)
     Read the full story of what happened when some big Twitter users were suspended.

11/​  50 Insanely Good Vector-​​based Web Designs (vector​-tutsplus​.com)
     The title isn’t lying, they’re insanely good.
12/​  Anyone Can Swiss (anyonecanswiss​.com)
     Swissify your posters with ease.
13/​  Seamless Textures (seamlesstextures​.net)
     I can’t believe some of these are seamless, they’re great.
14/​  10 Beautiful And Free Fonts For Web Designers (woork​.blogspot​.com)
     Always found a use for the first one.
15/​  7 Reasons Not To Have Empty Ad Slots On Your Blog (problogger​.net)
     Not that I have ads but this is useful and it bugs me when people have loads of empty slots.

16/​  Beautiful And Creative Examples Of Vibrant Web Designs (sixrevisions​.com)
     Quite a few web design collections I admit but they are good to look at.
17/​  Amazing Billboards (forwardon​.com)
     I think I’ve seen this post before but it’s nice to find it again.
18/​  50 Brilliant Typography Designs To Inspire You (best​-photoshop​-tutorials​.blogspot​.com)
     Helped me with a typography project. Cool collection.
19/​  Top Photoshop Textures (melissa​-brandon​.com)
     Add them to your collection.
20/​  I Am Second (iamsecond​.com) (Below)
     Nicely designed website with purpose and meaning.

21/​  Blog Post Ideas That Always Generate Buzz (thefuturebuzz​.com)
     If you’ve run out of ideas this list can be handy.
22/​  30 Creative Twitter Theme Backgrounds (leemunroe​.com)
     I quite like the design of that website, and this post is good too.
23/​  Do You Recognize These 10 Mental Blocks To Creative Thinking (copyblogger​.com)
    Just came across this randomly while doing some searching, good post.