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STOTTS. Screen — for screen- and desk-heavy days
Who it's for · What's in it · What powers it · What it won't do · Who it isn't for
For screen- and desk-heavy days — a lens configured around your working distances rather than borrowed from an everyday lens: the desk, the screens, the people across it and, where the day spans it, the room.
Lens technology: Nikon Lenswear. Configuration: STOTTS.
Who it's for
The day this configuration is built around.
- Varifocal, reading-glasses or separate-pair wearers with long screen days and the tell-tale habits — lifting the chin, turning the head between screens, hunting for the clear bit
- Single-vision or contact-lens wearers on screens for five or more hours a day who told us about tired eyes, leaning in or bringing things closer
- Not for anyone under about three hours a day with none of the habits — we say so
What's in this configuration
What we measure, decide and check.
- Your Lens Profile, checked against your prescription in practice
- Prescription validated — bring your current glasses
- The furthest and nearest distances you actually use at your desk, measured — this is what decides 1 Metre or 2 Metres
- Coating chosen for a reason you gave us — never added to raise the price
- Whether it lives beside your everyday pair — decided with you
- Fitting review after you collect — adjusted or put right if needed
And the design parameters, where the design accepts them
- A working-distance design chosen from those measurements — 1 Metre or 2 Metres, set at eye-point
- Ordering type — low, mid or high add — set from your confirmed reading addition
- Support level 0.50, 0.75, 1.00 or 1.25 chosen with you, not by age band
- Frame checked for the design — E-Life Pro 1 Metre and 2 Metres need a minimum 16 mm (reading addition of +1.75 or more) or 19 mm (under +1.75) fitting height and 25 or 28 mm total frame depth
- Frame checked for the design — Relaxsee has a recommended 19 mm fitting height
- Position-of-wear — how the frame sits: wrap angle, pantoscopic tilt, vertex distance — measured in practice where the design accepts it
- Near inset set from your measured working distance
Your own Lens Profile lists only the parameters the design it names can actually take — a lens that has no near inset is never shown one. Source: Nikon Lenswear Dispensing Guide 2026.
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The lens technology underneath.
Nikon E-Life Pro family for a desk pair (likely E-Life Pro 1 Metre or 2 Metres, decided by your measured furthest distance); Nikon Relaxsee family for screen-ready single vision.
Lens technology: Nikon Lenswear. Configuration: STOTTS.
The lens technology is Nikon Lenswear's and is available from other opticians. The configuration — assessment, measurements, design parameters and dispensing — is ours.
What it won't do
Said before you choose, not after.
Who it isn't for
When the profile says no.
- A dedicated computer pair Screens aren't a big enough part of your day to justify a pair of their own.
- A dedicated work pair Screens are a big part of your day, but you haven't reported difficulty or the tell-tale habits — so there is no compelling reason to change this yet. Worth revisiting if that changes.
- Another dedicated work pair You already own and use glasses made for your working environment. We would review those before suggesting anything new.
How we decide
In practice, in this order.
- 01The furthest and nearest distances you actually use at work
- 02Confirm the reading addition and whether 1 Metre or 2 Metres fits those distances
- 03Whether a second pair is genuinely convenient for you
- 04Near PD and fitting requirements; frame depth for an occupational design
A case, in outline
A varifocal wearer at a desk most of the week, across two monitors and a laptop, who lifts their chin and turns their whole head between screens. The profile names Screen — Desk reach: a pair set around the desk, with the plain caveat that it is not for driving.
An outline, not a promise: every configuration is confirmed against a prescription and measured in practice.
About the cost of a second pair
If it lives beside your everyday pair.
A complete second pair starts from £99 for single vision and £199 for a varifocal; members save 20% on complete eyewear and 50% on an additional complete pair within 90 days.
Screen questions.
Do I need a separate pair just for the computer?
Not always. If you would rather have one pair, the profile starts with your everyday lenses and keeps Screen alongside as the option — with an honest line about what a desk pair would still do better.
What decides 1 Metre or 2 Metres?
The furthest distance you actually use at work, measured in practice. Immediate desk work points at 1 Metre; seeing across the room or moving around it points at 2 Metres. The profile says "likely" until it is measured.
Can I drive in a desk pair?
No. The guide's own line is "Lens design not suitable for driving", and every Screen card carries it. It would live at your desk.
Will you add a filter coating because I use screens?
No. We do not suggest a filter coating simply because you use screens. A coating is chosen for a reason you gave us — reflections, scratches, night driving — never by default.
Your next step
Find out if this is your configuration.
Answer the Lens Profile questions about your day and it names the configuration your answers point to — Screen or another — or says plainly that nothing needs to change. The configuration itself is assembled in practice.
A STOTTS. configuration describes what we measure, decide and check in practice around a lens; the lens technology is Nikon Lenswear's and is available from other opticians.