Can You Get Blue Light Glasses With Power? Prescription Blue Light Lenses Explained
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Can You Get Blue Light Glasses With Power? Prescription Blue Light Lenses Explained
Yes. Blue light glasses can be made with your prescription. Rawbare Blue Block frames come with a blue light filter as standard and are fully prescription-replaceable at any optical store, so one pair gives you both screen comfort and clear vision. Here is how it works.
In this article
- Can blue light glasses have prescription lenses?
- How prescription blue light glasses work
- Do you need a prescription to wear blue light glasses?
- How to add your power to Rawbare Blue Block frames
- Who should consider prescription blue light glasses
- Blue Block frames to try
- Frequently asked questions
Can blue light glasses have prescription lenses?
Yes. A single lens can carry both a blue light filter and your vision correction, so you do not have to choose between comfortable screen time and seeing clearly. Rawbare Blue Block frames arrive with a blue-cut lens already fitted, and because the lens is fully replaceable at any optical store, you can have your prescription power added whenever you need it. That means one stylish frame can serve as your everyday glasses and your screen glasses at once.
How prescription blue light glasses work
A prescription blue light lens does two jobs. It filters part of the blue light from screens and artificial lighting for comfort, and it corrects your vision using the values from your eye test. An optician grinds your SPH, CYL, AXIS and any reading addition into a lens that also carries the blue-cut filter. The result looks and feels like ordinary glasses, but it is tuned for both your eyes and your screen time. If you are unsure what the numbers on your slip mean, our guide on how to read your eye prescription breaks them down.
Do you need a prescription to wear blue light glasses?
No. Blue light glasses work perfectly well without any power in the lens, and many people wear plano, meaning zero-power, blue-cut frames purely for screen comfort. Rawbare Blue Block frames come ready to wear straight out of the box with their blue-cut lens. A prescription only becomes relevant if you also need vision correction, in which case you can have the lens swapped to your power.
How to add your power to Rawbare Blue Block frames
The process is simple. Choose a Blue Block frame you like, then take it to any optical store with a current prescription. The optician replaces the standard blue-cut lens with a prescription lens made to your values, keeping the blue light filter. Because the frames are designed to be lens-replaceable, this is a straightforward job for any optician. Our guide on replacing your lenses explains when a lens swap makes sense.
Who should consider prescription blue light glasses
If you already wear glasses and spend long hours on screens, prescription blue light glasses let you carry one pair instead of switching between your regular glasses and separate screen glasses. They suit remote workers, students, and anyone whose day runs on a laptop or phone. For a full screen-comfort setup, pair them with the habits in our guide to the best computer glasses for working from home.
Blue Block frames to try
Here are three in-stock Rawbare Blue Block frames, each with a blue light filter and 100% UV400 protection, and each ready to be swapped to your prescription.
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