set title "Fill area between two curves (above/below)" set style fill solid 1.0 noborder set style data lines set xrange [250:500] plot 'silver.dat' u 1:2:($3+$1/50.) w filledcurves above title 'Above', \ '' u 1:2:($3+$1/50.) w filledcurves below title 'Below', \ '' u 1:2 lt -1 lw 2 title 'curve 1', \ '' u 1:($3+$1/50.) lt 3 lw 2 title 'curve 2'