Yesterday Mayor Vince Gray unveiled four proposed color schemes for D.C.’s 6,500 taxicabs. Under a plan passed by the D.C. Council and endorsed by Gray, the city’s cabs will eventually have to adopt a uniform color scheme, four of which were presented yesterday at the Verizon Center.

There are five other designs, though, none of which were painted on actual cars but are in the running and can be voted on at the Taxicab Commission’s website.

Only one of the nine proposed designs is a single color: it’s jet black. (It’s pretty smooth.) Every other proposed design is made up of a number of colors running the length of the cab, from a questionable Brazilian-themed green and yellow design to a few variations on the Circulator’s paint job.

According to the Post, Ward 3 Councilmember Mary Cheh isn’t impressed, having called some of the choices “horrid.” The City Paper has also found some people that want the commission to go back to the drawing board altogether.

All of the proposed designs are pictured above. The four that were painted on cars will be on display at the Verizon Center until January 6, after which they will move to Union Station and eventually the Washington Auto Show in February. Thereafter, the commission will decide which design it likes best; the results of the public vote will be non-binding, though.

The earliest you might see one of these new designs is mid-2013, though it could take upwards of five years for every D.C. taxicab to change over.