Distribution in specific SFR versus stellar mass (left panel) and in U-V, V-J rest-frame colours (right panel). We separated the galaxies into quiescent (Q, magenta circles) and star-forming (SF, blue stars) based on their location with respect to the star forming main sequence (SFMS; solid line in the left panel). The Q galaxies are those deviating by more than 2σ below the SFMS (i.e. they lie below the dashed line in the left panel). The right-hand panel illustrates how this selection compares with the UVJ quiescent zone outlined by the dashed segment (Muzzin et al. 2013b). Empty (filled) symbols indicate galaxies in the silver (golden) samples. The numbers in the left panel give the number of SF and Q galaxies in the golden, silver and parent LEGA-C samples. All quantities in this plot come from the LEGA-C DR3 catalogue, except stellar masses which are those computed in this work.