Progressive addition lenses are mostly great for all distances. With soft design, these lenses provide acceptable and comfortable vision. Some eye doctors also think that progressive lenses offer much more natural and usable vision than bifocals and trifocals. Unlike bifocals and trifocals, progressive lenses have as many as nearly 20 focal points. There are many notable brands available such as Zeiss. Incorrectly positioned progressive lenses can cause blurry vision. Plastic markers can be used to check the right positioning of progressive lenses, both side to side and up and down.

Technological improvement of eyeglass lenses has brought much more options to customers. The period in which people with presbyopia were forced to wear the Franklin style bifocal lenses with visible lines across the lens has gone forever. Currently, new types of multifocal lenses are available, not to say various specialty eyeglasses such as computer glasses exclusively for intermediate vision.