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How to Find Your PD for a Warby Parker Order

When you order prescription glasses from Warby Parker, you'll be asked to submit your pupillary distance along with your prescription. This guide covers what Warby Parker specifically accepts and how their tools work — for what PD actually is and how to measure it, start with our complete guide to measuring pupillary distance.

What Warby Parker accepts

Warby Parker takes either standard format — a single number (pupil to pupil) or a dual PD (each pupil to the nose bridge, right eye first). Either works for a standard order; reading glasses use your near PD instead, about 3 mm less. If you're unsure which format you have, single PD vs dual PD clears it up.

There's no single "normal" value — Warby Parker puts the adult average around 60 to 64 mm, but being outside that range is completely normal. (We explain why published ranges vary so much in why every site gives a different normal PD range.)

Warby Parker's own PD tools — and an alternative

Warby Parker's own PD tool uses a photo with a magnetic-stripe card held under your nose for scale, and their iOS app can measure it using the iPhone's TrueDepth depth camera. Both work by giving the camera a known reference to calibrate against.

Our PD measurement tool does the same job differently: it uses the iris itself as the size reference — no card, no app, just your camera — and returns both the single and dual numbers ready to paste into Warby Parker's form.

Where else to find your number

If you'd rather not measure: check your prescription (PD is sometimes listed, though in some regions it's a dispensing measurement your provider isn't required to include), or ask the office that did your exam — a pupillometer reading is the most accurate you'll get. The numbers printed inside your current frame's arm are the frame's measurements, not your PD.

What happens if your Warby Parker PD is wrong

Warby Parker is on the more forgiving end here. Within its 30-day window, if lenses "feel wrong," it will remake them once at no charge, and it reimburses return shipping on genuine lab errors. That's a real difference from stores that treat a customer PD error as non-refundable — we lay out how the major retailers compare in what each store does if your PD is wrong.

One honest caveat

Any at-home method — including the retailers' own tools — is an estimate, not a clinical measurement. For most single-vision orders a millimeter or two is harmless. For progressives or a strong prescription, where a small error matters more (does your PD need to be exact), measure a few times and confirm against a real exam when you can. Measure twice, order once.

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