Custom legend for multiple layer ggplot

Instead of setting colour and fill, map them using the geometry aesthetics aes and then use scale_xxx_manual or scale_xxx_identity.

Eg

ggplot()+geom_ribbon(data=ribbon,aes(ymin=min,ymax=max,x=x.ribbon,fill='lightgreen'))+
    geom_line(data=ribbon,aes(x=x.ribbon,y=avg,color='black'))+
    geom_line(data=data,aes(x=x,y=new.data,color='red'))+
    xlab('x')+ylab('density') + 
    scale_fill_identity(name = 'the fill', guide = 'legend',labels = c('m1')) +
    scale_colour_manual(name = 'the colour', 
         values =c('black'='black','red'='red'), labels = c('c2','c1'))

Note that you must specify guide = 'legend' to force scale_..._identity to produce a legend.

scale_...manual you can pass a named vector for the values — the names should be what you called the colours within the calls to geom_... and then you can label nicely.