Tinted Lenses to Block Fluorescent Lights

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I'm thinking of buying some tinted glasses for indoor use, as I will have to work under fluorescent lights more often this year. I have a few questions:

1) Do they look professional?
2) What percentage of protection is good to get for indoor use? My sunglasses for outdoors are 75% UV protection.
3) The glasses shop I go to offers 3 colors- clear, green, or brown. Which color do you think is best?

I don't have the option to get Irlen testing done or get Irlen lenses.

I'd say black, but you gave three options, so brown.

I would think that green will make florescent glare worse because florescent light tends to be green. Brown will work but will make everything darker than you might want. I vote for trying to find something in amber (orange)You can get amber "computer glasses" in the same styles as reading classes hencethey look professional, although they tend to be overpriced.You can get amber safety glasses that look like normal (albiet sporty and slightly out of fashion) sunglasses very cheaply at hardware stores etc. I swore by amber glasses when I was a bike messenger, because they cut glare, improve contrast and in that instance the killer feature was that they were the only colour that was effective at cutting glare outside but actually made things subjectively brighter inside-- very cool. If you really want to get obsessive I put 1/4 cto gels on my work light and computer screen at home to cut out blue light but I think that's not going to fly in most workplaces

Thanks for the info. I think the brown lenses this store offers are more of an amber color than true brown so I'll go with those. I wear glasses usually so I'll just buy another pair and have the special lenses put in.

I was just curious if anyone else on this site had ever bought any glasses like this for work.