August 20, 2025

EnChroma Lens Technology

If you find it difficult to tell colors apart, you may be experiencing color blindness. Contrary to myth, this common condition rarely means seeing black and white; it means struggling to differentiate colors like red and green. Discover how advanced lens technology can change your view of the world.

Key Takeaways

Color Vision Clarity: Color blindness (red-green deficiency) is highly common, affecting up to 8% of men, and is a differentiation issue, not an absence of color.
Safety & Daily Impact: This visual impairment can create real-world challenges, particularly in identifying colors critical for safety, such as traffic lights and medication.
Innovative Solution: EnChroma lens technology specifically counters red-green deficiency by selectively filtering light wavelengths to create greater contrast between confusing colors.
Premium Quality: Beyond color correction, the lenses are made with leading-edge Trivex material, ensuring exceptional clarity, strength, and 100% UV light protection.
Life in Technicolor: This spectral lens technology offers patients the life-changing ability to successfully distinguish colors and experience the world in full vibrancy.

If you find it difficult to tell colors apart, you may be color blind. Color blindness, or color deficiency, is estimated to affect around 8% of men and about 1% of women, but for those affected, it can significantly impact the quality of their day-to-day life. Contrary to popular belief, being color blind doesn’t mean that you can’t see any color at all. Instead, patients simply struggle to differentiate between certain colors. The vast majority of people who are color blind find it impossible to tell the difference between varying shades of red and green. You may hear this referred to as red-green color deficiency. However, this doesn’t only mean that they mix up red and green. They can also mix up colors that have some green or red light as part of their whole colors, for example, purple and blue. This is because they are unable to see the red light that forms part of the color purple.

As you can probably imagine, this type of visual impairment can be a problem for things like traffic lights, taking medication, and even looking at signs and directions. For example, someone who is color blind may find that the green on a traffic light may appear white or even blue.

EnChroma lens technology is specifically designed to counteract red-green color deficiency and enable patients to better identify the difference in these colors or shades. They do this by selectively filtering out the red and green wavelengths of light at the exact point where the color sensitivities overlap before hitting the retina, creating far greater contrast between the colors so that the patient can distinguish between them successfully. Most cases of color blindness respond well to EnChroma’s innovative spectral lens technology, giving patients the ability to experience life in bright, vibrant technicolor.

EnChroma lenses are made from leading-edge Trivex material, and this helps to give them the best possible quality and clarity of vision. These lenses are also extremely light, strong, and offer patients 100% protection against UV light, helping to keep your eyes healthy as well as improving your vision.

Resources & Citations

EnChroma Official Website: Learn more about the science behind the spectral lens technology and see product options.
National Eye Institute (NEI) on Color Blindness: Official information on the causes, prevalence, and types of color vision deficiency.

If you or someone you know is color blind or color-deficient and could benefit from EnChroma lenses, contact us today to learn more about how they can help!