After you’ve picked out your eyeglass frames and lenses, your optometrist may ask if you would like to have coatings on your lenses. So what is lens coating? Is the lens coating a must? What lens coating shall we choose?
Lens coatings are treatments done on lenses that help enhance their performance, durability and even appearance. You can benefit daily from coatings in the following ways:
More relaxed vision
Fewer glares from light reflecting off lenses
Improved vision comfort when driving at night
Increased comfort when reading
Reduced strain when working on digital devices
High resistance to lens scratches
Reduced cleaning of lenses
There’s a wide variety of lens coatings to choose, each with its own properties. To help you sort through the common choices, here we would like to make a brief introduction for the common coatings to you.
Hard Coating
For plastic lenses (organic lenses) you definitely need a hard lacquer coating. While plastic lenses are easy to wear, the material used is softer and more prone to scratches than glass lenses (mineral lenses) – at least if untreated.
Special coatings with a hard lacquer matched to the material not only enhance the scratch resistance of the lenses, they also ensure constant visual quality and extend durability.
Anti-Reflective Coating (AR Coating)
Another lens treatment you’ll definitely find useful is the anti-reflective coating. This thin, multilayer lens treatment eliminates light reflections from the front and back surfaces of your eyeglass lenses. By doing so, AR coating makes your lenses nearly invisible so people can focus on your eyes, not distracting reflections from your eyeglasses.
Anti-reflective coating also eliminates glare caused by light reflecting from your lenses. With reflections eliminated, lenses with AR coating provide better vision for night driving and more comfortable vision for reading and computer use.
AR coating is highly recommended for all eyeglass lenses
Bluecut Coating
Because of the widespread use of digital devices in our lives (including smartphones, tablets, desktop computers, and TVs), people are now more likely than ever to experience eye strain.
Bluecut coating is a special coating technology applied to lenses, which helps to block the harmful blue light, particularly the blue lights from various electronic devices.
If you are concerned about excessive blue light exposure, you can choose the bluecut coating.
Anti-Glare Coating
Driving at night can be a harrowing experience because the glare from both headlights and streetlights can make seeing clearly difficult. Anti-glare coatings work to enhance the appearance of your lenses and improve the clarity of your vision. With anti-glare coating, the glare and eliminate reflections and halos around lights can be effectively blocked, which will provide you with clear vision for nighttime driving.
Mirror Coating
They help you cultivate a unique look and they are not only fashionable, but also entirely functional: sunglass lenses with Mirror coating provide crystal-clear vision with significantly reduced reflections. This improves visual comfort, both in extreme light conditions, such as up in the mountains or in the snow, as well as on the beach, in the park or when you're shopping or playing sports.
Hope the above information is helpful for you to get a better understanding about different types of lens coatings. If you need more information, please contact us. Universe Optical always makes full efforts to support our customers by offering considerable service.