> It's much more work than the 26 latin characters, but most of the font design is going to be copy/paste.
Not quite. While the minimal Hangul font design requires two sets of initial consonants, one set of vowels and two sets of final consonants (often called 2x1x2), it would be very quirky. Many bitmap fonts used the 8x4x8 design or its variant, the commercially available TrueType/OpenType fonts now have more than 30 sets of subtly differing glyphs. It is easier than drawing all 11,172+ glyphs but not much.
But you would still copy/paste to create subtly different glyphs, right? Just like I can copy and paste parts of Han characters to make 村 校 林 枚 様 機 横 (look at the left half), with slight modifications as necessary. (At a quick glance, I suspect the font I use has four variations of the 木 radical among those seven characters).
Not quite. While the minimal Hangul font design requires two sets of initial consonants, one set of vowels and two sets of final consonants (often called 2x1x2), it would be very quirky. Many bitmap fonts used the 8x4x8 design or its variant, the commercially available TrueType/OpenType fonts now have more than 30 sets of subtly differing glyphs. It is easier than drawing all 11,172+ glyphs but not much.