Auresta — orange lens blue light glasses for gaming, work and long screen days

Depends what you want them to do, and we would rather tell you than sell you. The 2023 Cochrane review of 17 randomised trials found blue-light-filtering lenses probably make no difference to eye strain from screens, and the College of Optometrists says the same. What an amber lens does do, physically, is absorb blue light in the 400–500 nm band rather than reflect a little of it like a clear lens — which raises contrast, cuts glare, and takes the harsh edge off a bright monitor. That is what you will feel.

For filtering blue light, yes, and it is not close. A clear lens with a coating reflects a modest share of the blue band. An amber — properly, orange — lens absorbs it, and the lens reads orange precisely because the blue is not getting through. Even the optometrists who dismiss clear blue-light lenses accept that a genuine tint does something. The cost is a warm cast to what you see.

Yes, a little — whites lean golden and blues are muted, and that shift is exactly what the filtering looks like. Most people stop noticing within a few minutes. If you do colour-critical work, photo editing or grading, take them off for it.

For the long session, yes — that is what they are built for. The orange tint and the nine-layer anti-reflective coating take the reflections off your monitor and the lights behind it out of the picture, and the 19 g TR90 frame has slim straight arms that pass under a headset cup instead of fighting it. If you play competitively and read colour cues to win, do not buy these: an orange lens takes colour information away. We would rather tell you than take the money and get the pair back.

We are not going to promise you anything about your sleep, because the evidence does not let us. Here is what exists: Cochrane calls the sleep evidence indeterminate, and a small 2009 trial (Burkhart & Phelps) on amber lenses worn before bed is the most-cited study in the category. What we can describe is what changes in the room: put them on at 10pm and the screen goes the colour of a lamp. Whether that is worth it to you is your call, and you have thirty days to make it.

Yes. UV400 — 0.00% transmittance at 380, 390 and 400 nm (lab-tested). The same pair works walking home in the sun. Not for driving, though: this is a Category 1 orange tint and it does not meet the blue signal-light recognition requirement of the standard it was tested to.

No. Tested against BS EN ISO 12312-1, the lens scored 0.34 on blue signal light recognition where the standard asks for 0.6 or above. That is a direct consequence of how much blue it filters. Day or night, take them off before you pick up the keys.

Shipping is free on every order, with delivery in 2–4 business days.

Thirty days. Not thirty days in the box — actually wear them, at your desk, at 10pm, for a week. If the orange isn’t for you, or you just don’t like them on your face, send them back for a full refund. Normal wear is expected. We only ask the frame and lens come back undamaged, in the case. This sits on top of your statutory 14-day right to cancel.

TR90 — a flexible memory polymer used in sports and performance eyewear. Nineteen grams, and it bends rather than snapping.