Polarised · UV protection · $34 a pair
Five tints.
Five kinds
of light.
The same rectangular frame in five lenses. A neutral grey for flat sun, a brown that lifts contrast, and three mirrors for water, snow and broken light. Every one polarised.
Move your cursor. The T01 Grey, over the road you are looking at
The five
One frame. Five lenses. Pick the light.
The lenses
Same scene. Five lenses in front of it.
Tint decides what a lens takes out of the light. Drag the line across the road, pick a tint, then switch the polarising filter off to see what it was doing.
Grey
Flat bright sun, driving, everyday
Dims everything evenly and changes colours least. The neutral choice, and of the five the one to reach for behind the wheel.
A neutral grey attenuates the whole visible spectrum together rather than favouring one end of it, so colour relationships survive behind the lens better than with any other tint. That is why it is the default for bright open light and the one to pick when you need to judge a colour, a traffic light included.
One frame, five lights
Scroll the sun across the road.
01 Grey02 Brown03 Dark Blue Mirror04 Ice Blue Mirror05 Red Mirror
Flat bright sun, driving, everyday
What polarisation is
Glare is light with a direction.
- 01
Sunlight has no direction
Light leaving the sun vibrates in every orientation at once. Nothing about it is organised.
- 02
A flat surface organises it
Strike water, a road or a windscreen at a shallow angle and the reflected part comes away vibrating mostly in one plane: horizontally.
- 03
That is glare
A bright, structureless veil carrying no information about what is underneath it. It is why you cannot see into water on a bright day.
- 04
A filter has a direction
A polarising film is a sheet of molecules all stretched the same way, and it absorbs light vibrating along them. Set with that axis horizontal, it takes out the horizontal component and passes the rest, which is why the scene survives and the veil does not.
This is a property of light, not a feature of one brand. Two things on this page come from the frame maker's own specification: the lenses are polarised, and they are tri acetate cellulose, a layered lens with the film laminated inside it. All five pairs carry the filter.
The lens
The filter is inside the glass.
Every pair here has a tri acetate cellulose lens: a laminated construction with the polarising film sealed between two layers of the lens itself, not coated onto the surface. That is why the polarisation cannot scratch or wear off, and why a lens this light can block glare as well as a heavier glass one. On top sits a UV-protective coating.
The frame is the same on all five: a rectangular plastic front 140mm across, with 60mm lenses on a 15mm bridge and 145mm temples. A flat brow line, a slight taper toward the nose, and a fine perforated texture across the front and arms. The only thing that changes from pair to pair is the tint, which is a choice about the light you will be in.
- 5
- tints
- $34
- a pair
- 60mm
- lens
- 145mm
- temple
Questions, answered
Are all five pairs polarised?
Yes. All five are polarised and carry UV protection. They differ in the tint sitting in front of that filter, which is what decides the kind of light each one suits.
Which pair should I buy first?
The Grey. A neutral grey changes no colours and works in flat bright sun and behind the wheel, so it is the one that never feels like the wrong choice. Each of the others beats it in one specific condition.
What does polarised actually do?
Light that bounces off a flat surface such as water, a road or a car bonnet comes away vibrating mostly in one plane, horizontally. A polarising film absorbs that one orientation and passes the rest. The glare goes and the rest of the scene stays.
What size are they?
60▫15▫145, in a 140mm front. Those are the frame maker's published figures, not ours, and every page that prints them says so. The fit guide shows how to check them against your own face.
Can I return them?
No. We do not take a pair back because the tint turned out not to suit you, so the choice has to be made before you buy rather than after — which is why this site spends more effort than most on telling you which tint is for which light, and why asking us first costs nothing. What is always put right, and is not a return: a pair that arrives damaged, the wrong tint in the box, or a manufacturing defect inside 30 days. The full policy sets out each one.
Start with the grey.
It is the one that is never wrong, which is the point: we do not take returns, so the pair that suits every light is the safe first buy. Free shipping.
The Grey · $34