Left: UVJ diagram of all galaxies in the CANDELS fields more massive than 10¹⁰M_⊙ (background gray scale). The redshift evolution of the median U − V and V − J colors of SFGs in different stellar mass bins is overlaid with colored lines. They all fall along a single line we dub the “UVJ sequence”, which is illustrated by a dotted line. Finally, the adopted dividing line between SFGs and QGs is shown with a long dashed line. Right: evolution of the V − J color with redshift for each bin of mass. We show in the background the prescription adopted in this work.