colored lenses

Tinted optical filters

Colored lenses are eyeglass or contact lenses tinted to alter the appearance of eye color or filter light.

Some are cosmetic: She wore colored lenses to make her brown eyes blue.

Others serve practical purposes—yellow lenses for low-light visibility, blue-blocking lenses for screen use.

Figuratively, to see through colored lenses is to perceive things with bias: He views everything through rose-colored lenses.

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optical function

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Custom-ground vision aids

corrective lenses · prescription glasses · reading glasses · vision correction · bifocals

perceptual authenticity

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Vision without optical instruments

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Known to kids · Used worldwide · Timeless · Concrete · Everyday, not technical · Rated G