A contact lens for correcting presbyopia comprising: a central optical zone having a semi-diameter of about 1.0 mm to about 2.0 mm and having a power profile that is continuous and provides a positive ADD power having a maximum ADD power of up to about 2.4 diopters at the center of the central optical zone and a minimum ADD power of between about 0 diopters and 0.2 diopters at a boundary of the central optical zone to a transition zone; a peripheral optical zone having a power profile that provides an amount of negative spherical aberration between an inner semi-diameter of about 2 mm and an outer semi-diameter of about 3 mm, wherein the difference between the amount of negative spherical aberration provided at the inner semi-diameter of the peripheral optical zone and the amount of negative spherical aberration provided at the outer semi-diameter of the peripheral optical zone ranges from a minimum absolute value of about 0.65 diopters and a maximum absolute value of about 1.25 diopters, with the rate of power change being continuous in the peripheral optical zone; the transition zone being interposed between and connected to the central optical zone and the peripheral optical zone, the transition zone providing a transition between the central optical zone and the peripheral optical zone, the transition zone having a power profile that is continuous, with the power in the transition zone continuously decreasing from the minimum ADD power at the boundary of the central optical zone and the transition zone to the power of the peripheral optical zone at the boundary of the transition zone and the peripheral optical zone as the contact lens transitions from the central optical zone to the peripheral optical zone; wherein the central optical zone has a rate of power change which is discontinuous at an interconnection of the central optical zone and the transition zone. a central optical zone having a semi-diameter of about 1.0 mm to about 2.0 mm and having a power profile that is continuous and provides a positive ADD power having a maximum ADD power of up to about 2.4 diopters at the center of the central optical zone and a minimum ADD power of between about 0 diopters and 0.2 diopters at a boundary of the central optical zone to a transition zone; a peripheral optical zone having a power profile that provides an amount of negative spherical aberration between an inner semi-diameter of about 2 mm and an outer semi-diameter of about 3 mm, wherein the difference between the amount of negative spherical aberration provided at the inner semi-diameter of the peripheral optical zone and the amount of negative spherical aberration provided at the outer semi-diameter of the peripheral optical zone ranges from a minimum absolute value of about 0.65 diopters and a maximum absolute value of about 1.25 diopters, with the rate of power change being continuous in the peripheral optical zone; the transition zone being interposed between and connected to the central optical zone and the peripheral optical zone, the transition zone providing a transition between the central optical zone and the peripheral optical zone, the transition zone having a power profile that is continuous, with the power in the transition zone continuously decreasing from the minimum ADD power at the boundary of the central optical zone and the transition zone to the power of the peripheral optical zone at the boundary of the transition zone and the peripheral optical zone as the contact lens transitions from the central optical zone to the peripheral optical zone; wherein the central optical zone has a rate of power change which is discontinuous at an interconnection of the central optical zone and the transition zone.