Support DotDashKey

DotDashKey is free to use, has no login wall, and every translator runs without ever uploading what you type. Keeping it that way costs real, ongoing time and hosting money — researching each history page properly, verifying every code table against the official standard, and keeping the site fast on a phone in a cockpit, on a boat, or in a scout troop's meeting room with bad signal.

Where a Donation Goes

Donations go toward hosting costs, the research time behind the History and Reference sections, and building out what's still on the roadmap — deeper per-character pages for every letter and prosign rather than only the most commonly searched ones, additional reference systems, and new puzzle content for the Activity Pack.

Other Ways to Support the Site

• The Code & Cipher Activity Pack is a paid printable puzzle set that directly funds the site while giving you something genuinely useful in return.
• Linking to a specific page from your own blog, forum post, or scout troop's resource list helps far more than it might seem, since search visibility is most of how a small independent reference site like this one survives.
• Sending in a correction when you spot one keeps the reference charts trustworthy for everyone who uses them after you.

If a printable is more use to you than a donation, the Code & Cipher Activity Pack is 30 original puzzles across all six systems covered here, with a full answer key and blank templates for writing your own.

No Pressure

The translators, charts and history pages are free to use whether or not you ever donate a cent, and that isn't changing. This page exists for the people who want to chip in, not as a paywall.

Why a Small Site Still Needs Support

It's easy to assume a reference site like this one is basically free to run once it's built, but that's not really true. Hosting, domain renewal, and the tooling behind the translators are ongoing costs, and the actual research time behind an accurate history page — cross-checking a claim against more than one source rather than repeating whatever the last site said — is the single biggest cost of all, and the one that's easiest for a struggling independent site to quietly cut corners on. A donation is a direct vote for keeping that research standard intact rather than watching it slide toward thinner, faster, less accurate content over time.