AFTEN / AF–01
AFTEN One
Amber glasses for after sunset. They take the cool blue light out of your screens and lamps, so your evening stops looking like midday.
When you wear them / 01
Your day gets darker. Your room does not.
Follow one evening from left to right.
- 08:00
Daylight
Bright, cool light. Exactly what you want.
- 17:30
Sun drops
The sky warms and dims on its own.
- 19:30
Lamps and screens take over
Your room goes back to midday light.
- 20:00
Glasses on
Evening light, restored.
- 23:00
Lights out
Take them off and sleep.
Where they live / 02
Evenings, as they actually look.
How to use them / 03
Three steps, then forget them.
01
Put them on after sunset
Around the time you switch the lamps on.
02
Change nothing else
Keep your screens, lamps and habits as they are.
03
Take them off for bed
They belong on the nightstand, not on your face.
The lens curve / 04
What the lens lets through.
Left of the dashed line is the deep blue your screens and LEDs push out after dark. Almost none of it reaches your eyes. Right of it is the warm half of the spectrum, which passes through so the room still looks like a room.
- < 1 %
passes below 450 nm
The deepest blue — the part screens and LEDs push hardest.
- ≈ 480 nm
cut-off
Where the lens stops blocking and starts letting light through.
- ~ 62 %
visible light
The room stays bright enough to read, cook and work in.
Compared / 05
Next to typical blue-light glasses.
No brands named. This is what the clear-lens glasses sold by the thousand actually do, beside what this one does.
Typical blue-light glasses
AFTEN One
Blue light actually blocked
A few percent. Mostly marketing.
Nearly all of it below 450 nm.
Lens colour
Clear — looks the same, does little after dark.
Amber — you can see it working.
Made for
All-day, general use.
The hours after sunset.
Transmission data published
Rarely, if ever.
Yes. The full curve is on this page.
Frame
Injection-moulded plastic.
Hand-polished clear acetate.
Case
Soft pouch, or none.
Rigid box that is the case.
Returns
Varies, often none.
30 days.
Price
$10–$30 for glasses that filter little.
$89, or two pairs for $149.
Blue light actually blocked
A few percent. Mostly marketing.
Nearly all of it below 450 nm.
Lens colour
Clear — looks the same, does little after dark.
Amber — you can see it working.
Made for
All-day, general use.
The hours after sunset.
Transmission data published
Rarely, if ever.
Yes. The full curve is on this page.
Frame
Injection-moulded plastic.
Hand-polished clear acetate.
Case
Soft pouch, or none.
Rigid box that is the case.
Returns
Varies, often none.
30 days.
Price
$10–$30 for glasses that filter little.
$89, or two pairs for $149.
The box / 06
It arrives in a rigid box.
A printed sleeve slides off a rigid box. Inside, the frame sits in a fitted tray with the cleaning cloth beside it. The box is the case: it stays on the shelf or in a bag and the glasses live in it between evenings.
170 × 110 × 42 mm, stiff enough to sit on. It is the reason the glasses reach you straight and stay that way.
Fit / 07
One size, and no invented numbers.
What we can tell you
- One size, made to suit most adult faces.
- Soft-square front with a keyhole bridge.
- Straight temples, light clear acetate.
Measurements
Exact millimetres — lens width, bridge, temple length — are being confirmed against the production sample. We would rather publish nothing than publish a number that is slightly wrong.
If fit is the deciding factor for you, email hello@wearaften.com before you order and we will send the figures as soon as they are measured. Returns stay open for 30 days either way.
Inside / 08
A case that folds flat when the glasses are in use.
Designed to travel without becoming another rigid object on the desk.
Object to evening / 09
Built for rooms that run late.
At a screen, beside a lamp, or under the last light in the room. The frame stays quiet. The amber lens does the work.
One frame
Quiet on the face. Specific in the light.
What people say / 10
Worn after sunset, most nights.
“The first evening I wore them my screen stopped feeling like a floodlight. I kept working, it just looked calmer.”
Mara K.
“I put them on when the lamps go on. Nothing else about my night changed, which is exactly what I wanted.”
Sam O.
“Light frame, no pressure behind the ears, and the amber is warm instead of orange-cartoon.”
Iris D.
- Delivery
- US delivery in 4–7 business days
- Returns
- 30 days, unworn, in the original box
- Checkout
- Secure, encrypted payment
- Questions
- hello@wearaften.com
The lens
Less cool light after daylight.
The amber lens filters most short-wavelength visible light below the measured cut-off, warming white interfaces and bright LEDs.
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