Sunglass Replacement Lens Colours and Attributes Available at The Sunglass Fix

SFx Black Solid Lenses:

Dark Smoke is one of the most popular colours for sunglasses and a good general purpose lens. Dark Smoke lenses provide great glare protection in mid to bright conditions. Smoke shows true colors and is a must when colour recognition is important.
Recommended for all day, general use in bright conditions.

Also known in the industry as Smoke or Grey lenses.

Examples photos of Sunglasses below for all Colours****

Category 3

Blocks 85% of
Visible Light

SFx Black Gradient Lenses:

Smoke Gradient lenses start as dark as the smoke solid lenses at the top but get gradually lighter as they near the bottom edge of the lens. Smoke Gradient lenses are commonly found in fashion sunglasses.

The Smoke colour provide great glare protection in mid to bright conditions and show true colors. They are a must when colour recognition is important.
Recommended for all day, general use in bright conditions.

Also known as Smoke Gradient or Grey Gradient lenses.

Category 3

Blocks 85% of
Visible Light

SFx Silver Mirrored Black Solid Lenses:

Our Silver Mirrored lenses are coated on the external side with a flash mirror coating. This is a subtle mirroring as opposed to a strong mirror. Mirroring hides your eyes and provides a little extra glare protection. Dark Smoke lenses provide great glare protection in mid to bright conditions. Smoke shows true colors and is a must when colour recognition is important.
Recommended for all day, general use in bright conditions.

Also known in the industry as Smoke or Grey mirrored lenses.

Category 3

Blocks 85% of
Visible Light

Blue Mirrored Sunglasses lenses replacment sunglass lenses

SFx Blue Mirrored Black Solid Lenses:

Our Blue Mirrored lenses have a bluish-purple coloured mirroring on top of a crystal clear black lens. The mirroring is then coated with a protective layer so you don't get peeling or mirror scratching when it's put on last. This is a subtle mirroring as opposed to a strong mirror. Mirroring hides your eyes and provides a little extra glare protection. Dark Smoke lenses provide great glare protection in mid to bright conditions. Smoke shows true colors and is a must when colour recognition is important.
Recommended for all day, general use in bright conditions. This is the darkest category III lens we carry.

Also known in the industry as Smoke or Grey blue flash mirrored lenses.

Category 3

Blocks 89% of
Visible Light

SFx Brown Solid Lenses:

Brown lenses are solid all around performers and ideal if you own just one pair of sunglasses. Brown works well in mid to bright conditions and highlight things against green backgrounds. Brown lenses naturally filter out high frequency light waves and as a result has an image sharpening effect. Because they perform well in both bright and dull conditions they are ideal if you live in an area that has frequent light condition changes such as overcast mornings changing to sunny afternoons.

Also known in the industry as copper and dark amber lenses.

Category 3

Blocks 85% of
Visible Light

SFx Brown Gradient Lenses:

Brown Gradient lenses are solid all around performers and ideal if you own just one pair of sunglasses. Brown gradient works well in mid to bright conditions. Brown lenses naturally filter out high frequency light waves and as a result has an image sharpening effect. They are also commonly found in high end fashion sunglasses. Because they perform well in both bright and dull conditions they are ideal if you live in an area that has frequent light condition changes such as overcast mornings changing to sunny afternoons.

Also known in the industry as copper and dark amber gradient lenses.

Category 3

Blocks 85% of
Visible Light

SFx G15 (Green #15) Solid Lenses:

G15 lenses, also known as aviator green. The G15 colour was originally produced for aviators to help see things against blue (sky) backgrounds. They deliver strong vision performance by providing high image contrast. They are a blend of black, green and brown undertones. These attributes make it one of the top selling general purpose lenses and are commonly found in Ray Ban sunglasses. They perform best best in mid to bright conditions.

Also known in the industry as crystal green or just green lenses.

Category 3

Blocks 85% of
Visible Light

SFx Yellow Solid Lenses:

Yellow lenses perform best in low light conditions where fast moving, sharp, site performance is required. Yellow does change colour perceptions, which makes it inappropriate for situations that require colour accuracy. They are commonly used in biking and other sport activities played in low to mid light conditions. They work well in sports played under night lighting. In some countries they are used as night driving lenses to help block out bright city and oncoming headlights.

They are also great for the work shop and yard work where you need to be able to see in lower light conditions but also are in the sun. It provides enough glare protection to take the edge off but also allows you to keep the glasses on while looking for thinks in the garage or working in the shade.

Category 1

Blocks 18% of
Visible Light

SFx Extreme Black Solid with Silver Mirror Coating:

Our Ultimate Extreme Smoke lenses are the darkest lens we make and are coated with a silver flash mirroring for added glare protection. It has been designed for extremely bright conditions such as snow sports, desert conditions, and other activities where you are in direct sunlight most of the time. Smoke lenses are a good general purpose lens and provide great glare protection in bright conditions. Smoke shows true colors and is a must when colour recognition is important.
Recommended for all day, general use in bright conditions. They are also not recommended for driving as they can be too dark for shady areas.

Also known in the industry as dark smoke or dark grey lenses

Category 4

Blocks 92% of
Visible Light

Polarised Lenses

Polarised lenses have a polarisation film built into them. These films act as millions of microscopic mirrors that reflect light that comes from the top and bottom of the lens. This prevents glare reflections from roads, snow and water hitting your eyes. Our lenses are made from one of the best performing Japanese polarisation films which is rated at a 99.9% efficacy rate.

Polarised lenses are found in many sports brands and are uncommon in fashion eyewear. However, many of our customers opt to upgrade to a polarised lens in fashion eyewear for the added glare protection and soothing performance they deliver.

Additionally, many migraine sufferers find that polarised lenses work well as reducing the onset of migraine headaches.

Poly Carbonate Lenses (PC)

Our SFx High Clarity and PC Polarised lenses are made from Polycarbonate.

Polycarbonate lenses is one of the most common sunglasses lenses found on the market. Most fashion and sports sunglasses use this medium in their lenses. It is a very safe lens and is the only lens to be used for safety glasses.

It's optical properties are not as good as glass or our Ultimate lenses and they can slightly distort or magnify things. However, this is subtle and most users do not notice it. However, if you have sensitive eyes you will be better off with our Ultimate lenses.

SFx Ultimate Lenses

Our Ultimate Lenses are made from polyamide. This material has similar optical properties as glass lenses. However, they are 1/3 the weight of glass and are significantly safer as they do not break. They last longer than most polycarbonate lenses and provide clearer vision. Polyamide lenses are found in some of the top models from high end sport manufacturers. While most use polycarbonate for the mid range sunglasses they will put Polyamide in their top of the line models.

Ultimate lenses can not be used as safety lenses. They can withstand a steel ball traveling at 120 feet per second. Safety requirements demand 150 feet per second which is what polycarbonate, the most common safety lens, can withstand.