A system and method for color navigation through a CIELAB color space with coordinates hue (H), lightness (L), chroma (C), with intervals ΔH, ΔL, ΔC such that the perceptual color difference AE1Nv, defined according to the formula: AZW =^{AL)2+{fc(H)−ACf+[AH)2, is constant for steps in direction C and L and for steps in direction H along boundary of color space. fc(H) is a proportionality factor between 0 and 1 depending on hue. For hue values between red (H1) and green (H2), fc(H) =1. For hue values between green (H2) and blue (H3), the proportionality factor fc(H) is set to a constant value foB such that Nκ,GB(fGB) differs less than 50% from NH,RG—For hue values between blue (H3) and red (H1), the proportionality factor fc(H) is set to a constant value fβR such that N^BR^BR) differs less than 50% from NH,RG—.