diff --git a/hist/hist/src/TScatter.cxx b/hist/hist/src/TScatter.cxx
index e8f6e9a81ccb6..dfec152176360 100644
--- a/hist/hist/src/TScatter.cxx
+++ b/hist/hist/src/TScatter.cxx
@@ -157,7 +157,7 @@ TH2F *TScatter::GetHistogram() const
 {
    if (!fHistogram) {
       // do not add the histogram to gDirectory
-      // use local TDirectory::TContect that will set temporarly gDirectory to a nullptr and
+      // use local TDirectory::TContext that will set temporarly gDirectory to a nullptr and
       // will avoid that histogram is added in the global directory
       TDirectory::TContext ctx(nullptr);
       double rwxmin, rwymin, rwxmax, rwymax;
diff --git a/hist/histpainter/src/TGraphPainter.cxx b/hist/histpainter/src/TGraphPainter.cxx
index bab7b44ad63ff..06b0db1a16569 100644
--- a/hist/histpainter/src/TGraphPainter.cxx
+++ b/hist/histpainter/src/TGraphPainter.cxx
@@ -4474,8 +4474,9 @@ void TGraphPainter::PaintScatter(TScatter *theScatter, Option_t* chopt)
    }
 
    TH2F *h = theScatter->GetHistogram();
+   h->SetContour(gStyle->GetNumberOfColors()); // Ensure same number of divisions in underlying hist than in TScatter palette
    if (optionAxis) {
-      h->Paint(" ");
+      h->Paint("COL1"); // avoid h empty bins to be drawn as background if negative Z values in scatter plot
       if (h->GetMinimum() < h->GetMaximum()) {
          if (minc<h->GetMinimum()) minc = h->GetMinimum();
          if (maxc>h->GetMaximum()) maxc = h->GetMaximum();