diff --git a/src/platformsupport/fontdatabases/mac/qfontengine_coretext.mm b/src/platformsupport/fontdatabases/mac/qfontengine_coretext.mm
index 25ff69d877d..98b753eff96 100644
--- a/src/platformsupport/fontdatabases/mac/qfontengine_coretext.mm
+++ b/src/platformsupport/fontdatabases/mac/qfontengine_coretext.mm
@@ -824,7 +824,7 @@ void QCoreTextFontEngine::getUnscaledGlyph(glyph_t glyph, QPainterPath *path, gl
 
 QFixed QCoreTextFontEngine::emSquareSize() const
 {
-    return QFixed::QFixed(int(CTFontGetUnitsPerEm(ctfont)));
+    return QFixed(int(CTFontGetUnitsPerEm(ctfont)));
 }
 
 QFontEngine *QCoreTextFontEngine::cloneWithSize(qreal pixelSize) const