My goal was to not modify the characters to the point where numbers cannot be recognized. This led to difficulty defining a consistent grid since I did not want to modify the numbers too much. The new Neuemerals characters followed the horizontal grid of the original Helvetica character grid. I cut the numbers up and used them like puzzle pieces for each letter, doing this allowed for many different variation of each letter, but in the end I decided to go with the simplest option possible to let the numbers shine.