An Egyptian software developer specialising in text-rendering technologies and computer font processing, and a type designer specialising in Arabic and mathematical fonts. Khaled studied medicine and worked as a doctor before devoting himself to software development and type design.
Khaled Housny has designed a number of digital typefaces and contributed to the design of others, including open-source Arabic fonts available for public use, such as «Amiri», which revives the last Naskh style of the Bulaq Press, and the Qur'anic Kufic font «Qahiri», among others. He also contributes to many open-source software projects responsible for text rendering and font processing in operating systems, web browsers and many other programs.