Lens guide
What we can make for your frame: the lens types, how thin they can be, and the coatings. Choose a frame and its lens selector shows what suits your prescription, with the price of each choice.
Lens types
Single vision
- Single vision
- Everyday single-vision lenses for distance or reading.
- Single vision premium
- Aspheric single-vision lenses: thinner edges, wider clear zone.
- Zero power, blue filter
- Screen lenses without a prescription, blue filter included.
Progressive
- Progressive essential
- Seamless distance-to-near vision. Needs a frame at least 30 mm tall.
- Progressive short corridor
- A progressive for shallow frames (from 26 mm tall).
Occupational
- Office (desk and screen)
- Near and intermediate vision for desk and screen work.
Bifocal
- Bifocal (flat top 28)
- Distance and reading in one lens with a visible reading segment.
Thickness
A higher index bends light more, so the same power needs less material — a thinner, lighter lens.
- 1.50 Standard
- 1.56 Mid-index
- 1.59 Polycarbonate
- 1.60 High-index
- 1.67 High-index
- 1.74 Ultra-thin
Coatings
Every lens comes with: Hard coat.
- UV protection
- Anti-reflective
- Blue-light filter
- Water and smudge repellent
- Photochromic grey
- Polarised grey
- Tint
- Mirror