5 Benefits of Wearing Anti-glare Lenses, You MUST Know

While buying glasses, we are flooded with numerous coating options which can be a bit overwhelming. With new and attractive coating names, you’d want every vital feature to be on your new glasses but often, not all coatings are worth your money. But how do you identify the real effective coatings that are mandatory for glasses durable performance?

The talk of the town is anti-glare coating. But is it scientifically approved? Let’s find out

What is an anti-glare coating?

Anti-glare or often called, an anti-reflective coating is an additional lens coating that helps to improve your visual clarity. The coating is significantly powerful in eliminating unwanted reflections from the front and back of the glasses lens, resulting in a crystal clear view. The coating works by eradicating unwanted glares or reflection but also increases the transmission of “good” light to pass through the lens for better clarity.

The coatings work by helping you see more clearly by allowing about 99.9% of light rays to pass through the lens, rather than reflecting back. More light is required to pass through the lens to help you see better, while the glare that blocks you from seeing things clearly gets disrupted.

Glasses without anti-glare coating doesn’t function well when it comes to visual acuity. If you are older than the age of 40, lenses without anti-glare coating can severely make it difficult to see anything at all. Anti-glare coating effectiveness isn’t just voted for eyeglasses, but also in sunglasses as it improves the outdoor vision. Sunglasses with anti-glare coating restrict glares emitted from the sun and surrounding light sources. Using the coating, the glares are reflected back from the eyes, keeping your vision clear as crystal.

Sounds great, right?

5 benefit of anti-glare coating on lenses

1. Increased light transmission

Anti-glare coating is made out of multiple layers of extremely thin metal oxides with a different refractive index. That causes the lens to transmit more visible light, leading to improved visual acuity in both condition, dark or light. With more light transmission into your eyes, the view around you enhances and you acquire a sharp and clear vision. It saves you from any risk of night driving, as it allows you to see objects ahead of you clearly in spite of excessive glare from headlights and billboards on the street.

2. Improves your appearance

It’s quite common to see reflected glare on lenses while clicking a picture or through video chat. It often feels like your eyes are concealed behind the lenses which don’t allow you to make deep conversation with people. With no eye contact, the conversation feels a bit awkward. It also affects your look.

Anti-glare coating, on the other hand, gets rid of the harsh reflection from the lenses, allowing others to see you clearly — not the annoying glare on your eyes. You can now appear attractive and clear while clicking a picture or video chatting with a buddy. The confidence in you shines back by removing these wanted glare accumulateded on your lenses from surrounding areas.

3. Reduce eye strain

Glare hit your eyes from front and back, causing your eyes itchy, and dry. That can cause eye strain and headache. Anti-glare lenses improve this situation by reflecting back the unwanted rays, thus your eyes are no longer exposed to glares.

4. Best Pair to high-index lenses

While opting for high-index lenses, an anti-glare coating is one option that you must never bypass. High-index lens material is known for reflecting a far greater percentage of light rays than any other standard index lenses. As we are already familiar with the negative impacts of reflected light, especially at night, when the reflective rate is extremely high increases the risk of distraction, eye strain and fatigue while driving.

A simple anti-glare coating brings you a lot of fortune, not by just eliminating the glare but also getting rid of mirror-like reflection from your eyes. With these coatings, the lenses allow you to look clear.

5. Comes free

Wait….what? Yes, anti-glare coating comes for free at Specscart. Rather than charging an extra pound for something that’s very essential for your vision and comfort, we offer it for free. At Specscart, we offer FREE impact-resistant lenses with anti-glare, anti-scratch and anti-UV coating with all our prescription, non-prescription, and cheap glasses.

Now that you know its benefit, don’t forget to buy glasses online WITH anti-glare coating or else you’ll have to manually battle the unwanted glares.