Curved

The CURVED graphological sign is the sign of sentiment's extroversion, in that it indicates 'social and socialised tendency'. It is a indication of sentiment that needs to express itself and is capable of compassion; it indicates the ability to accept and adapt. It transmits the tendency to selflessness, intended as the impulse to satisfy the aspirations, demands and desires of others, if it has the ability to remove obstacles. Otherwise it transforms into mere surrender, impersonal adaptability and disengagement, through Self's lack of precise aspirations to develop and satisfy.
An excessive graphical roundness, therefore, indicates a predominance of the adaptive nature, that brings with it the disregard of Self's rights through inaction, by 'indolence, which Moretti defines as "nothing more than egoism characterised by not wanting to inconvenience itself to sort things out" and therefore lets things go their own way. For these reasons the above average curve injures, not only justifiable resentment, but also sensibility, independence, psychological comprehension and the ability of observation.

On a graphic level the Curve requires not only a rounded line, but one without markings in that any sign of breaks or slowing down, including those due for example to accuracy, decreases the degree of the Curve. It is precisely this qualification that makes it a sign that is anything but easy to measure for amateurs, who must wait, before giving an opinion concerning it, to know all the other graphological signs that can support or oppose the Curve in some way.
In fact not all Curved writings are writings of selflessness or surrender and this is because signs of preventative defence other than the angle exist, and it is extremely important for the graphologist, in order to arrive at a correct valuation of the altruistic/egoistic movement, to know how to recognise them.

The psychological significance of the Curve sign, consequently, becomes the result of the following lines of study:

  1. the measurement of the roundness of the line, which turns out to be inversely proportional to the quantity of angles, markings and breaks of various nature present in the handwriting;
  2. the evaluation of the specific contribution given by all the other signs present in the handwriting, that can support the altruistic movement of openness (e.g. Sinuous, Rushing, Right extensions…) or obstruct it in that they belong to the psychological significance of care and defence of Self (e.g. Pondered, Stable on the line, Straight Extensions…)
  • Altruistic movement (Curved) obstructed by other signs (Accurate, Heavy, Backward slant)
    Handwriting sample: curved with accurate, heavy, backward slant
  • Altruistic movement (Curved) strengthened by other signs (Large spacing between letters, Rushing)
    Handwriting sample: curved with large spacing between letters, rushing

As Moretti says:

The true Curve, psychologically speaking, does not exist and one can graphologically disregard it… We assign the Curve sign and we consider it graphologically to facilitate the evolution or the practical application of Graphology, in that we, by fixing the opposites, although one of them does not in reality occur, understand things better. And that precisely because, in this way, we consider them in their dynamic part and not in their simple static position. (Moretti, 1972, p. 59)

In order to adequately understand the Curve sign, therefore, it is necessary to introduce its opposite extreme, the Angular sign.