Sunglasses & lens tech
Shade & Temple
An independent, spec-first sunglasses review brand — ranking eyewear on the lens numbers that actually decide a pair, like UV protection, polarization, tint, and frame fit, rather than a field test the site never ran.
About Shade & Temple
Shade & Temple covers sunglasses the way buyers actually shop for them: by activity — golf, fishing, running, and driving; by fit — face shape, and lenses that go over prescription glasses; and by brand, with reviews of names like Goodr and Knockaround. Around those sit plain-English lens-science explainers — polarization, UV400, tint colours, and polarized-versus-non-polarized — each cited to the standard or the authority behind it. Its posture is set in a line: top-rated sunglasses, compared on the specs, not the hype.
Its defining decision is stated plainly: it runs no lab and field-tests nothing, putting the count of pairs it claims to have field-tested at zero. What it does instead is read the manufacturer spec sheets and compare the numbers that decide a lens — UV rating, polarization, VLT, frame weight, and coverage — refusing to recommend anything that doesn't block 100% of UV (UV400 / 100% UVA-UVB), and printing "Not published" where a maker withholds a figure rather than guessing. It runs no invented reviews, ratings, or before-and-afters, and cites eye-health claims to authorities like the AAO, FDA, WHO, CDC, and Prevent Blindness. Prices pull live from Amazon carrying the date they were fetched and fall back to "Check price" once they go stale. Its author, Stephen V., is positioned honestly as an eyewear and lens-tech enthusiast who states he is not an optometrist.
That refusal to claim a test it never ran is exactly how Type 5 Marketing operates. The brand is funded by disclosed Amazon Associates links — a reader who buys through one pays no extra — and no affiliate program has ever changed a ranking; when a cheaper pair outperforms a pricier one, it says so and names when to skip, even though the expensive pick would pay more. Leading with the spec sheet, citing the lens science, and admitting the work it hasn't done is the standard we hold across every property in the portfolio.
Shade & Temple is owned and operated by Type 5 Marketing LLC and applies our shared review methodology and affiliate disclosure. It reflects our affiliate marketing capability in practice.
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