Everything to do with the view of a FOLDER and its contents is stored in the .DS_Store file in that folder. When you are drilling down through sub-folders if there is a .DS_Store file in the topmost folder in the hierarchy its view settings prevail down through all the sub-folders until you hit a sub-folder with its own .DS_Store file. Otherwise the defaults prevail.
Icons, and tags are stored in the volume directory, not in .DS_Store. I don't know about fonts and backgrounds, I have never bothered to change them.
