There's no way Josef Albers could've known, way back in 1963, how easy it eventually would become to make a color palette. The revered Bauhaus teacher, whose book The Interaction of Color taught a generation of artists and designers the intricacies of color relationships, likely would be stunned to learn that you can create a perfectly good palette with a tap of your keyboard's space bar.

No, really. It's that simple. "The process of creating a color scheme should be easy," says Fabrizio Bianchi. "It should be like brainstorming."

Bianchi created Coolors, a web and iOS app that lets you generate an infinite number of color palettes by tapping your keyboard like a button on a slot machine. With each tap, a new palette appears on your screen, split into five hue-filled windows. Not crazy about the scheme over all but see an individual color you like? Click it and Coolors will isolate that color; every subsequent tap of the space bar generates a new palette in accordance to your choice color(s).