Who is Hue?
The “Hue” on our sign isn’t actually anyone’s name. “Hue” is just another name for color. “Me & Hue” was supposed to be a witty way to express the idea of an artist or customer & their relationship with color, or something clever like that. We also thought that sounding like “Me & You” was sort of friendly and welcoming. It looked good on paper. Of course, anything witty becomes much less so when you need to explain it. It turns out that people just don’t use the word “hue” very often, the way we artists do. People mostly assume it’s a name, like “Hugh Grant”. In our gallery there’s just a “Heidi” and a “Joe” and more recently a “Hope”, so most customers ask if Joe is Hue. This is only fair, because Me & Hue was his bright idea for a name anyway. Joe then explains the name at length which takes all the wittiness out of it (see above). So many people call him Hue that he sometimes gets testy, especially since he brought this on himself. There goes the friendly and welcoming aspect out t
