Using the "#" symbol from "boisik" font family

Question

I was trying to use the hash symbol (#) from boisik font family on pdfLaTex (In Overleaf). That is, I want to use \hash instead of \# in my document. But the problem is that if I use \usepackage(boisik), the font in my whole document is getting changed.

I saw different answers to this kind of problems, but all those answers are probably meant for some other font families, e.g. mathabx,fourier etc., but I am unable to implement what those answers say.

Can anyone please help ? Thanks in advance.

This migh help you: writing a section in a specific style and typeface after setting a new (separate) standard typeface. — Jojo, May 12 '20 at 21:13
@Jojo , thanks for your suggestion. It worked too. I got to know about the libertine package too ! — JRC, May 18 '20 at 16:11

score 2 · Accepted Answer · answered May 12 '20 at 22:55

You don't really want that, because the Boisik fonts are only available in bitmap format.

\documentclass{article}

\DeclareRobustCommand{\hash}{{\fontfamily{bsk}\selectfont\#}}

\begin{document}

The normal \# and the Boisik one \hash

\end{document}

A magnified version:

You could obviate the problem by choosing very high resolution:

\pdfpkmode{dpdfezzz}
\pdfpkresolution=8000

\documentclass{article}

\DeclareRobustCommand{\hash}{{\fontfamily{bsk}\selectfont\#}}

\begin{document}

The normal \# and the Boisik one \hash

\end{document}

Using the "#" symbol from "boisik" font family

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