 Beset by financial troubles, H. Berthold AG ceased operations in 1993.Berthold Types Ltd., a Chicago-based company, one of the companies which claimed to be the copyright owner of Berthold fonts, took over distribution of the Berthold digital type library and has released several new typefaces under the direction of Lange, who had retired in 1990, but served as an artistic consultant to the company until his death in 2008.Since 2008 Linotype started selling Berthold fonts through its website.