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Lenses at Designerframes2u

Find the latest prescription lenses at Designerframes2u. Your first choice for quality eyewear at outstanding prices.

At Designerframes2u, you will find the same prescription lenses and lens coatings that are available in any high street opticians. Our largest supplier of prescription lenses is Essilor, the world's leading manufacturer of prescription lenses.

To avoid any confusion or delay in the processing of your prescription lenses, please supply your prescription details with your lens order. Alternatively you can supply a current prescription and PD measurement via e-mail.

Which lens options do I choose?

Standard 1.5 index lenses

  • The most common type of lens used today.
  • Standard lenses - 1.5 index (Lenses are priced per pair)
  • Recommended for prescriptions between +2.50 and - 2.50. The most common type of lens used today. Tougher, lighter and safer than standard glass lenses and more comfortable to wear.

Thin & Light lenses - 1.6 Index lenses

  • Up to 25% lighter and 20% thinner than standard 1.5 Index lenses Thin & Light lenses -  1.6 Index lenses (Lenses are priced per pair)
  • Up to 25% lighter and 20% thinner than standard 1.5 Index lenses
  • Recommended for prescriptions above + 3.00 or - 3.00.
  • These lenses are ideal for higher prescriptions. They are lighter, look better, and will work well with all frames.

Thinner & Lighter lenses - 1.67 Index lenses

  • Up to 40% thinner than standard 1.5 Index lenses Thinner & Lighter lenses - 1.67 Index lenses (Lenses are priced per pair)
  • Up to 40% thinner than standard 1.5 Index lenses
  • Recommended for prescriptions above + 4.00 or - 4.00.
  • This lens is ideal for higher prescriptions, the lens is thinner and lighter than standard lenses resulting in a better finish

Thinnest & Lightest lenses - 1.74 Index lenses

  • Up to 50% thinner than standard 1.5 Index lenses Thinnest & Lightest lenses - 1.74 Index lenses (Lenses are priced per pair)
  • Up to 50% thinner than standard 1.5 Index lenses
  • Recommended for prescriptions above + 4.00 or - 4.00.
  • The ultimate in thinness and lightness, 1.74 Index lenses are currently the thinnest and lightest plastic lens available.

Lens Coatings

At Designerframes2u, you will find the same lenses & coatings that are available in the high street but with massive discounts on manufacturers RRP. There is no difference in the quality of our lenses. Please fill in your prescription details with your lens order or supply a current prescription and PD measurement via e-mail.

Which coating do I choose?

Scratch-resistant coating
An anti-scratch or scratch-resistant coating is a coating that is applied to your optical lens surface. The coating does not interfere with your vision quality or the lens function, but creates a permanent bond with the lens that reduces the appearance of hairline scratches which is common to prescription lenses. Though an anti-scratch coating is not 100% scratch-proof, it helps to prevent minor scratches that can easily happen to a regular lens. These minor scratches can damage the surface of the lens and impair vision. An anti-scratch coating acts as a protective layer that making the lenses more durable.

Anti-glare coating
An anti-glare or anti-reflective coating helps to reduce glare and reflections on optical lenses. With uncoated lenses, much of the light reflects off the lenses, this produces glare and can reduce vision clarity. Light reflections are a visual and cosmetic problem. Anti-reflective coatings increase light transmission through the lenses. They make it easier to see and easier for others to see you. These coatings are especially useful for those viewing computer screens and driving at night. The performance of anti-glare lenses continues to improve with the arrival of the newest generation of Crizal Alizé and Crizal Forte premium anti-reflective coatings. These highly advanced coatings can be more scratch resistant than glass lenses.

Essilor lens coatings
Crizal Alizé offers excellent all-round clarity of vision; combining incredible smudge repellence, scratch resistance and anti-reflective performance.
Crizal Alizé’s advanced MAR coating fills in microscopic cracks to produces a near perfectly smooth surface. This makes it 3 times more repellent
and 10 times easier to clean than standard uncoated lenses.

**Crizal Forte™ is the ground-breaking lens coating that takes scratch, dirt and reflection elimination to a new level.
It provides the most advanced and enduring protection for wearers, thanks to the latest technology in HMAR.
Making Crizal Forte twice as scratch resistant as Crizal Alizé.
**Crizal Forte™ also offers a No Quibble Two Year Consumer Guarantee against scratching and manufacturing defects.

CRIZAL FORTE UV™
The most advanced Crizal antireflective lens, providing ultra protection against Ultraviolet and perfect clarity of vision.
All lenses prevent transmission of UV rays hitting the front side of the lens. However, up until now, even the best eyeglasses did not protect against the remaining danger of the UV rays coming from the back and side of the lens, which can represent up to 50% of damaging UV light.

Crizal Forte UV combines for the first time an exclusive backside UV protection with Crizal’s superior clarity of vision. Thanks to Essilor’s new Broad Spectrum Technology, the thickness of each nanometric layer constituting anti-reflective coating applied to the backside of the lens has been optimized to virtually eliminate UV light reflection into the eyes, while maintaining perfect transparency of the lens.