Did you know that colored lenses actually help filter light away from your eyes? But, depending on the lens color, they do so in different ways. The key to choose the right sunglass lens color for you lifestyle is understand the features and benefits each lens color provides.

Once you’ve chosen your favorite sunglasses frames, there are a number of lens options open to you. So, pick your color according to your needs and customize your look, elevate your sports performance, enhance your leisure activities and complement your savvy fashion sense.

Polarized lenses

Whether you love being on the water or in the snow, polarized lenses reduce reflection and sun glare —the sunlight that bounces off smooth surfaces like pavement, car windows, chromed surfaces, ice or water—. These have a special chemical applied to filter light that increase visual clarity, making them useful for driving and fishing.

Polarized lenses cut glare, not UV rays.

However, many polarized lenses are now combined with a UV-blocking substance. So make sure you get properly protection from the sun’s harmful rays.

The image you see with polarized lenses is a bit darker than usual, but objects look crisper and clearer, and details are easier to see.

Mirrored coating

This lens option is perfect for a high-fashion look in multiple colors. This ultrasleek look reduces glare, making them ideal for people with a sensitivity to sunlight; also helps prevent eye fatigue.

If you participate in water sports or outdoor activities at high altitude —such as skiing or snowboarding—, this is a good choice for you.

Mirror coatings (also called flash coatings) are highly reflective coatings applied to the front surface of sunglass lenses to reduce the amount of light entering the eye.

Sunglass lens color guide

Each colored lens provides different benefits. Let’s see:

Gray tint

Gray-tinted lenses are ideal for every occasion, works well on both cloudy and sunny days. They provide anti-glare benefits and overall protection for glare. Also, is a perfect choice for outdoor activities and nature lovers, because preserve the normal color perception.

General benefits:

• Perfect for driving and outdoor activities
• Anti-fatigue
• True color perception
• Dark enough to provide overall protection
• Reduces glare, especially off water
• Great for variable weather

This lens option is perfect if you practice any outdoor sports in bright light conditions, like baseball, tennis, football, soccer or water sports.

Brown/amber lenses

The brown/amber sunglasses block high amounts of blue light. Also, improve your vision in sunny conditions, comforting your eyes and increasing contrast with green landscapes and blue skies.

General benefits:

• Blue light-blocking
• Enhances contrast
• Great for sunny days
• Improves depth perception

This sunglass lens color is perfect for driving, racing, hunting, cycling, golfing and fishing.

Green tint

Sunglasses with green lenses provide better contrast than gray tint and preserve color balance, also reduce glare while brightening shadows. These lenses protect and comfort your eyes.

General benefits:

• Perfect for any outdoor activity, in rain or shine
• Transmits all colors evenly
• Good for general purpose use
• Dims glare while brightening shadows

This colored lens is ideal for water or field sports, cycling, skiing and golf.

Yellow/orange lenses

Sunglasses with light-colored lenses such as yellow or orange provide excellent depth perception and also work well for both outdoor and indoor sports sunglasses; a great option for activities involving moving objects in low-light, hazy conditions.

General features:

• Provides greater clarity in fog, haze, and other lowlight conditions
• Filters out blue light that can cause eye strain
• May cause color distortion

Yellow or orange lenses offer greater clarity, perfect for pilots, and can also reduce eye strain for computer users and gaming fans. This option in great to practice cycling, skiing, mountain biking, hunting, aviation, tennis, racquetball and shooting.

Blue/purple tint

Blue or purple lenses are both fashion-savvy and practical for UV protection. Enhances the contours around objects and improves color perception, it also can have a calming effect on the eyes. Sunglasses with blue lenses also work well in foggy and misty weather.

General benefits:

• Reduces glare
• Helps to see contours
• Improves color perception
• Good in misty, foggy, and snowy conditions

This sunglass lens color is a great choice if you practice water sports, mountain biking or skiing.

Red/rose lenses

Red and rose-colored sunglasses offer you comfort and help the eyes adjust to contrast, great for increasing depth of field and vision; also provide enhanced driving visibility. A good alternative for computer users and gamers, because reduce eye strain by blocking blue light.

General benefits:

• Enhances visual depth
• Reduces eye strain
• Provides good road visibility
• Comforting to the eyes in most weather conditions, especially in snow

This lens color is an ideal option for sports like cycling, fishing, hunting, snowboarding and skiing.

Last but not least, before purchasing sunglasses with colored lenses, try to evaluate the different lens colors in lighting conditions similar to what you typically experience.

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