[ChikkaChiChi]

Typefaces are meaningless.

Now that I have your attention I'll blow your mind: A good typeface on a bad site does nothing but polish the turd. Designers that obsess over typefaces also generally give equal care to spacing and layout that when all put together makes for a great site.

Flipboard would never have chosen Comic Sans as a font and people that pushed Helvetica Neue would never use dancing chipmunk gifs in their layout.

[anandgrafiti]

True, you should not think of your redesign/design thinking about type. That will be a disaster. But somewhere along the way you need to start looking into the options available and the personality you want to deliver though your designs.

Psst! I never get people's hatred for comic sans..its a typeface designed for a purpose. Now its not anyones mistake that Microsoft started packaging it with the OS and the HR departments of the corporate world thought of it as cool to use to be friendly in communication:P

[ChikkaChiChi]

It's a low hanging fruit. That and it's also immediately recognizable so you are immediately ready to critique everything else.

[illicium]

What you're really saying is that typefaces are not meaningless, but using the right one for the job is simply part of good visual design.