Which frames suit a round, square, oval, heart, diamond or oblong face, how wide your frames should be, and how to check the fit. Style suggestions, not scores.
Published Updated Style suggestions, not scored
Short answer
Pick frames that contrast with your face: angular frames for a round face, round or oval frames for a square one, bottom-heavy or rimless frames for a heart, and deep frames for an oblong face. Frames should be about as wide as your face at the temples. Style suggestions, not scores.
By face shape
Shape
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Round
Rectangular, square or browline frames
Small, round frames
Square
Round, oval, aviator or rimless frames
Heavy square frames that repeat the jaw
Oval
Wayfarer, square or aviator, as wide as your face
Oversized frames that swallow the face
Heart
Bottom-heavy, rimless, round or oval frames
Top-heavy or heavily decorated brow bars
Diamond
Browline, cat-eye, oval or rimless frames
Narrow frames narrower than the cheekbones
Oblong
Tall, deep frames; decorative or contrasting temples
Small, shallow frames
Fit beats shape
Width: the frame front should be about as wide as your face at the temples, with no gap and no squeeze.
Your eyes should sit near the horizontal centre of each lens.
The top of the frame should follow roughly the line of your brows, not cut through them.
The bridge should sit on your nose without sliding or pinching.
Your pupillary distance (PD) is what the lenses are centred on: you can measure it with our printable PD ruler.
An eye test and lens prescription come from an optometrist or optician, not from an app or a ruler.
How the app handles this
Glasses are fine in a scan. Lenses magnify or shrink the eyes seen through them, so the app marks eye spacing as less certain (or leaves it out behind thick frames) and says so. Frames are never rated.
Angular frames: rectangular, square or browline. They add the corners a round face doesn’t have.
What glasses suit a square face?+
Round, oval, aviator or rimless frames, which soften the jaw’s corners.
Do glasses affect my scan?+
Only the eye measurements: lenses change how big the eyes look, so the app marks eye spacing as less certain, or leaves it out behind thick frames, and says so.