Anti-Reflective Coating for Anti Glare Glasses

An anti-reflective (also known as anti-glare) coating is definitely worth it! It makes your vision clearer and makes your glasses look better. Without this coating, most lenses, especially those of the high-index variety, obscure your eyes, making it that much more difficult to express yourself.

An anti-reflective coating stops your lenses from reflecting light away from your eyes, allowing more light to pass through the lenses. Your eyes work by absorbing light and sending the resulting image to your brain, so the more light reaching your eyes, the better your vision will be.

An anti-reflective coating should last at least 2 years. If you take care of your glasses it could last longer, or if you expose them to extreme conditions it could wear off sooner. Our affordable eyewear makes it easier to replace your glasses, and if your prescription changes you will be replacing your lenses anyway, so this isn’t usually an issue.

This is an easy one. If you take off your glasses, look into the lenses, and see yourself staring back, they don’t feature an anti-reflective coating. Your lenses will be almost invisible with this coating if they are clean, dust-free and the anti-reflective coating is still in good shape.

Because an anti-reflective (also known as anti-glare) coating is generally softer than the lens itself, it can be prone to scratching without proper care. Always wet lenses that have this coating before wiping them, and only use a specialized cleaning solution. A microfiber cloth is recommended to clean your lenses in the gentlest way possible.

Adding an anti-reflective coating after purchase is not common. The process involves specialized machinery that is usually only found where your glasses were manufactured. Since adding this coating is part of the production process, it’s very difficult to have it added to lenses you already own, and the tiniest scratch or graze can compromise the process. It’s much easier to choose eyeglasses and sunglasses with this coating already added.

An anti-glare or anti-reflective layer can eventually come off of glasses lenses, especially if they are exposed to a lot of scratches or strong chemicals. Keep your lenses safe and only use specialized lens cleaner to keep the layer intact for as long as possible.

We add an anti-reflective coating to most of our lenses, for no extra cost. From other retailers, an anti-reflective coating can add as much as $90 to your order.

An anti-reflective coating is not designed to filter blue light from digital devices. For this, take a look at our blue light filtering glasses. Both EBDBlue and Sightrelax blue light filtering lenses also come with an anti-reflective coating, so you don’t need to choose between these coatings.

An anti-glare or anti-reflective lens coating is great for driving at any time of the day, but they are especially useful at night. As well as generally improving your vision by allowing more light to reach your eyes, this coating can stop reflections from headlights coming up behind you and reflecting off the inside of your lens, temporarily blinding you.