Do you wear glasses? Most opticians have eyeglass frames that are all a variation on the standard flat long (side-to-side) rectangle scheme. This may be fine for people with skinny long faces, but it’s unsuitable for other face types.
Rimless lenses can be ANY shape you desire (even shapes that you don’t find at the opticians). This guide inspires you to make your own lens shape to better suit your face. You can use the dummy lens you create to make your actual rimless glasses.
Steps
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- Take a good picture of your face without glasses.
- Import the picture into Inkscape or other vector graphics software. Keep the picture as the bottom layer of the graphics. You will create your lenses on top of this.
- Draw a lens shape (preferably using the "bezier tool" or a predetermined geometric tool) around your eyes in the image.
- My motivation was to choose a shape which echoes my jaw shape and fits the eye-socket space.
- You can see in the image that for my wide-ish face, I needed some type of "geometric" design. I chose smooth on top, and more like the half of a stop sign on the bottom. But, the outside slopes were chosen to be parallel to a portion of my jaw line. The inner slope matches the slope of where my cheeks begin below my eye.
- You can choose a similar strategy, or use whatever geometric shape you think looks COOL (e.g., a "sprockets" look!).
- After you are satisfied with the lens shape, duplicate the SAME shape for your other eye, flip it about its vertical axis and move it over the image of your other eye.
- Check the dimension of your lenses in your graphics software. Inkscape allows you to measure the size of your drawing in pixels, inches, or centimeters. If you've been wearing eyeframes for some time, you may be familiar with your favorite frame size, e.g., 51/18/140. That's 51mm lens size. When sizing, be sure you drag the picture elements so that they scale PROPORTIONALLY.
Excellent Link! I Love the shapes chosen by this German optician, especially for tinted lenses/sunglasses. I suspect the model they have chosen does NOT where glasses, so it’s a “thin” lens. But still you should be able to get a cheaper price duplicating the same design on your own in 1/8″ acrylic sheet and sending off to an amenable store.
Why have i not seen anything like this capability at US opticians? It’s LONG overdue. However, i must say that at Euro 189 it’s slightly pricey compared to US online opticians. But the majority of the latter aren’t interested in your lens shape!