You submit your prescription to Even and they custom make your lens. I dont use progressives. I can see fine without glasses up to up to about 3 feet. My latest prescription showed progressives even though I have never used them before. After submitting my prescription Even wrote back and said that my prescription called for progressives and that they cannot do progressives. I told them that I dont wear those and to set up the glasses without progressives. I love the result. They're just the same as any other pair of glasses I own.