diff --git a/src/pshinter/pshglob.c b/src/pshinter/pshglob.c
index 521a5ff6c..6bc945e50 100644
--- a/src/pshinter/pshglob.c
+++ b/src/pshinter/pshglob.c
@@ -376,36 +376,24 @@
     /* not.  We simply need to compare the vertical scale     */
     /* parameter to the raw bluescale value.  Here is why:    */
     /*                                                        */
-    /*   We need to suppress overshoots for all pointsizes.   */
-    /*   At 300dpi that satisfies:                            */
+    /* The specs explain how the bluescale is calculated      */
+    /* from the desired maximum rounded pointsize at 300 dpi  */
+    /* and assuming upem of 1000.                             */
     /*                                                        */
-    /*      pointsize < 240*bluescale + 0.49                  */
+    /*    bluescale = ( pointsize - 0.49 ) / 240              */
     /*                                                        */
-    /*   This corresponds to:                                 */
+    /* For unrounded pointsize in general terms               */
     /*                                                        */
-    /*      pixelsize < 1000*bluescale + 49/24                */
+    /*    bluescale = ( pointsize * dpi / 72 ) / upem         */
     /*                                                        */
-    /*      scale*EM_Size < 1000*bluescale + 49/24            */
+    /* which is                                               */
     /*                                                        */
-    /*   However, for normal Type 1 fonts, EM_Size is 1000!   */
-    /*   We thus only check:                                  */
+    /*    bluescale = pixelsize / upem                        */
     /*                                                        */
-    /*      scale < bluescale + 49/24000                      */
+    /* Therefore, the bluescale value can be used directly    */
+    /* as a scale limit, now that it is in comparable units   */
     /*                                                        */
-    /*   which we shorten to                                  */
-    /*                                                        */
-    /*      "scale < bluescale"                               */
-    /*                                                        */
-    /* Note that `blue_scale' is stored 1000 times its real   */
-    /* value, and that `scale' converts from font units to    */
-    /* fractional pixels.                                     */
-    /*                                                        */
-
-    /* 1000 / 64 = 125 / 8 */
-    if ( scale >= 0x20C49BAL )
-      blues->no_overshoots = FT_BOOL( scale < blues->blue_scale * 8 / 125 );
-    else
-      blues->no_overshoots = FT_BOOL( scale * 125 < blues->blue_scale * 8 );
+    blues->no_overshoots = FT_BOOL( scale < blues->blue_scale );
 
     /*                                                        */
     /*  The blue threshold is the font units distance under   */
@@ -708,7 +696,6 @@
 
       /* limit the BlueScale value to `1 / max_of_blue_zone_heights' */
       {
-        FT_Fixed  max_scale;
         FT_Short  max_height = 1;
 
 
@@ -725,11 +712,12 @@
                                           priv->family_other_blues,
                                           max_height );
 
-        /* BlueScale is scaled 1000 times */
-        max_scale = FT_DivFix( 1000, max_height );
-        globals->blues.blue_scale = priv->blue_scale < max_scale
-                                      ? priv->blue_scale
-                                      : max_scale;
+        /* restrict BlueScale value that is amplified 1000-fold and */
+        /* rescale it to be comparable to the metrics scale         */
+        if ( FT_MulFix( max_height, priv->blue_scale ) < 1000 )
+          globals->blues.blue_scale = priv->blue_scale * 8 / 125;
+        else
+          globals->blues.blue_scale = 64 * 0x10000L / max_height;
       }
 
       globals->blues.blue_shift = priv->blue_shift;