diff --git a/src/gui/text/qfontengine_ft.cpp b/src/gui/text/qfontengine_ft.cpp
index 86fb0e8ae4..ec995d5cc6 100644
--- a/src/gui/text/qfontengine_ft.cpp
+++ b/src/gui/text/qfontengine_ft.cpp
@@ -849,11 +849,8 @@ static inline bool areMetricsTooLarge(const QFontEngineFT::GlyphInfo &info)
 {
     // false if exceeds QFontEngineFT::Glyph metrics
     return (short)(info.linearAdvance) != info.linearAdvance
-            || (signed char)(info.xOff) != info.xOff
             || (uchar)(info.width) != info.width
-            || (uchar)(info.height) != info.height
-            || (signed char)(info.x) != info.x
-            || (signed char)(info.y) != info.y;
+            || (uchar)(info.height) != info.height;
 }
 
 QFontEngineFT::Glyph *QFontEngineFT::loadGlyph(QGlyphSet *set, uint glyph,
diff --git a/src/gui/text/qfontengine_ft_p.h b/src/gui/text/qfontengine_ft_p.h
index 3421c873d5..ee2df6f665 100644
--- a/src/gui/text/qfontengine_ft_p.h
+++ b/src/gui/text/qfontengine_ft_p.h
@@ -140,9 +140,9 @@ public:
         short linearAdvance;
         unsigned char width;
         unsigned char height;
-        signed char x;
-        signed char y;
-        signed char advance;
+        short x;
+        short y;
+        short advance;
         signed char format;
         uchar *data;
     };