Eyewear Insights
Guides & Articles
Expert advice on EV Readers, lens technology, and finding the right eyewear for how you need to see.
Why Your Eyes Are Exhausted by Screens — and What Actually Helps
Screen time physically changes how your eyes work — dropping your blink rate by up to 70% and straining the muscles that hold your focus. Here's what's actually happening, and why the right glasses matter more than taking more breaks.
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How EV Readers Work: The Technology Behind Extended Vision
Discover how Extended Vision Readers use digitally surfaced lenses to give you clear vision from 18 inches to infinity — no more switching glasses.
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What Your Screen Time Is Doing to Your Eyes — And What Actually Helps
Most of us spend all day staring at screens. Ophthalmologists say our eyes are paying for it. Here's what they recommend — and what it means for your glasses.
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Autofocus Glasses Are Coming. Should You Wait for Them?
Autofocus eyeglasses promise to eliminate bifocals and progressives forever. But the technology has a long history of almost-but-not-quite. Here's what you should know.
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Selecting the proper lens material for your new glasses
We make the choice easy for the the right lens material for your custom-made prescription eyewear. We offer two lens materials - Polycarbonate or High Index...
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Anti-Blue Light Lenses – Protection from computer screens
Have your eyes ever felt tired after staring at a digital screen for hours at a time? You are not alone! Studies have suggested a connection between the blue...
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Fitting Guide – Finding the right Size
You found a frame shape you like and a color you love. But as you browse online you’re not sure if the frame you want is going to be sized correctly for your...
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Fitting Guide – Matching the right frame shape to your face shape
Let’s face it, selecting eyeglass frames is a very personal matter. It depends on the shape and size of your face, which features are more (or less) prominent...
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Introducing Extended Vision™ reading glasses: an innovative approach to solving an old problem
Reading glasses have been around for 400 years. Not much has improved over the centuries... they function the same way they always have: to sharpen your focus...
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Why eyeglasses don't have to be so expensive
David Lazarus asks "Why are eyeglasses so expensive?" in his LA Times article and makes this bold statement:"Prescription eyewear represents perhaps the single...
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Photochromic Lenses (what we call "Indoor / Outdoor lenses"): How Do They Work?
Same lenses. Same frames. They’re clear indoors. They darken into polarized sunglasses outdoors on a sunny day. No fumbling around to find your sunglasses when...
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How prescription lenses can help to correct Myopia, Hyperopia and Astigmatism
Nearly 75% of the American population requires some form of vision correction. The medical profession catalogs the most common conditions as myopia, hyperopia...
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Cataracts: What Are They and How Can You Reduce Your Risk?
More than half of all Americans age 80 or older either have cataracts or have had cataract surgery. In fact, cataract surgery is one of the most common...
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How to keep your glasses from fogging
Few things are as irritating as having your glasses fog up and blur your vision. As fellow eyeglass wearers, we'd like to offer you a couple remedies that we...
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How to clean your eyeglasses and sunglasses
Disinfecting your eyeglasses and sunglasses is easy to do. In addition to seeing clearly through lenses that are free of smudges and fingerprints, nowadays we...
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Got FOFU?
New Anti-Fog coatings for glasses and sunglasses will keep your lenses clear If you're like us and are constantly in fear of fogging up (FOFU), Lens & Frame...
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Progressive Lenses: What are they and how do they work?
Many people come to L&F and ask us whether or not they need progressive lenses in their eyeglasses. And why. Thus we thought we'd take a moment here to explain...
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Building Your Eyewear Quiver
For those of us who wear prescription lenses, you have probably accumulated quite a few pairs of prescription eyeglasses and prescription sunglasses over the...
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Having Trouble Adapting to Progressive Lenses?
Progressive lenses (also known as "no-line bifocals") are an amazing multi-focal invention that literally has different zones in the lens to help your eyes to...
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Single Vision or Progressive Glasses? How to read your Eyeglasses Prescription
Over the years since we started L&F, we've been asked the same question over and over: "Do I need single-vision or progressive glasses?" Most times, your eye...
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What are photochromic glasses?
You’ve seen them. Clear lenses that darken when the wearer goes outdoors. It’s the same frames they walked out with, same lenses, yet gradually, almost...
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What are progressive glasses, who needs them and how do they help people see more clearly
Progressive glasses, also known as progressive lenses or no-line bifocals, are fitted with a type of eyeglass lens that provides a gradual change in lens power...
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A Different Way To Reader
Want Something Different? Get Something Different. Extended Vision reading glasses are different. In fact, there’s nothing else like them without a...
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How to Choose the Right Extended Vision Reader
If you’ve ever wondered why your reading glasses work great for your phone but fall apart when you look at your computer screen—or why your progressives feel...
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The Great Glasses Shuffle: Why You're Exhausted From Taking Your Readers On and Off
We Need to Talk About Your Glasses You know the routine. You're at brunch with friends, catching up over eggs and coffee. Someone shares a photo on their...
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Did You Know Your Reading Glasses Power Will Change Over Time?
The Power That Worked Last Year Might Not Work This Year If you've noticed that the reading glasses you bought a couple of years ago don't seem as sharp...
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Did You Know Polarized Sunglasses Can Make Your Phone Screen Disappear?
The Disappearing Screen Trick You're at the beach, wearing your favorite polarized sunglasses. You pull out your phone to check a message. And suddenly... the...
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Did You Know Your Pupillary Distance Affects How Well You See?
The Measurement Most People Don't Know They Need When you get a new glasses prescription, you probably pay attention to the sphere, cylinder, and axis numbers....
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Did You Know UV Damage to Your Eyes Adds Up Over Time?
The Damage You Can't Feel Here's something unsettling: your eyes are being damaged by UV radiation, and you can't feel it happening. Unlike a sunburn on your...
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Did You Know Computer Glasses and Reading Glasses Aren't the Same Thing?
The Distance Problem Nobody Talks About You need reading glasses. So you grab a pair, put them on, and sit down at your computer. Everything looks... kind of...
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Which EV Reader Is Right for You? EV6 vs EV20 vs EVinfinity
The Short Answer If you're not sure which EV Reader to get, start with the EV6. It covers the distances most people need most often—your phone, your keyboard,...
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EV Readers vs Traditional Reading Glasses: What's the Difference?
The One-Distance Problem Traditional reading glasses do exactly one thing: they help you see clearly at about 14-16 inches. That's the distance from your face...
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EV Readers vs Progressive Lenses: Which Is Right for You?
The Progressive Lens Promise Progressive lenses sound like the perfect solution: reading, intermediate, and distance vision all in one lens. No bifocal line....
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