diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 98210219..e6aa6c01 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -5,6 +5,7 @@
 ### Bugs fixed
 
 * Dynamic vars whose names contain non-alphanumeric characters are now font-locked correctly.
+* [#445 (comment)](https://github.com/clojure-emacs/clojure-mode/issues/445#issuecomment-340460753): Proper font lock for namespaced keywords like for example `(s/def ::keyword)`
 
 ## 5.10.0 (2019-01-05)
 
diff --git a/clojure-mode.el b/clojure-mode.el
index a9ea8e2c..3be1aab0 100644
--- a/clojure-mode.el
+++ b/clojure-mode.el
@@ -785,7 +785,7 @@ any number of matches of `clojure--sym-forbidden-rest-chars'."))
                 "[ \r\n\t]*"
                 ;; Possibly type or metadata
                 "\\(?:#?^\\(?:{[^}]*}\\|\\sw+\\)[ \r\n\t]*\\)*"
-                "\\(\\sw+\\)?")
+                (concat "\\(" clojure--sym-regexp "\\)?"))
        (1 font-lock-keyword-face)
        (2 font-lock-function-name-face nil t))
       ;; (fn name? args ...)
diff --git a/test/clojure-mode-font-lock-test.el b/test/clojure-mode-font-lock-test.el
index 2eb1fa15..17548b4f 100644
--- a/test/clojure-mode-font-lock-test.el
+++ b/test/clojure-mode-font-lock-test.el
@@ -709,7 +709,13 @@ POS."
     (should (eq (clojure-test-face-at 2 4) 'font-lock-type-face))
     (should (eq (clojure-test-face-at 5 5) nil))
     (should (eq (clojure-test-face-at 6 11) 'font-lock-keyword-face))
-    (should (eq (clojure-test-face-at 13 15) 'font-lock-function-name-face))))
+    (should (eq (clojure-test-face-at 13 15) 'font-lock-function-name-face)))
+  (clojure-test-with-temp-buffer "(s/def ::keyword)"
+    (should (eq (clojure-test-face-at 2 2) 'font-lock-type-face))
+    (should (eq (clojure-test-face-at 3 3) nil))
+    (should (eq (clojure-test-face-at 4 6) 'font-lock-keyword-face))
+    (should (eq (clojure-test-face-at 8 16) 'clojure-keyword-face))))
+
 
 (ert-deftest clojure-mode-syntax-table/variable-def ()
   :tags '(fontification syntax-table)