The hand written l (script l) is even more distinctive than "L", but CIPM or BIPM or some other higher SI authority (CGPM?) rejected it years ago.
The lower case l, appearing to be hand scripted, was common on milk cartons several decades ago. I was sorry to see it vanish apart from its difficulty to type as a character on keyboards except from background as a special character. ---- Original message ---- >Date: Wed, 8 Dec 2010 20:13:49 -0000 >From: "Martin Vlietstra" <[email protected]> >Subject: [USMA:49076] Re: NPR story on ml dosing >To: "U.S. Metric Association" <[email protected]> > >One must understand the underlying reasoning. > >"l" is the logical symbol as there was no Mr Litre. The French have no >problem with the letter "l" as their "1", when hand-written, looks almost >like an upside-down "V" (with the right-hand stroke vertical). However the >Anglo-Saxon "1", when hand-written, looks very similar to the letter "l" - >hence the compromise. >...
